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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag was detected near Gardendale in Texas

Posted by admin on February 19, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 31.9838S, -102.3064WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Gardendale in Texas. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/02/20 / 2020-02-19 20:54:44 / February 19, 2020 @ 8:54 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us70007t7l. Unique identifier: us70007t7l. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.62 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 6.62 km, -102.3064° West, 31.9838° North. The temblor was reported at 14:54:44 / 2:54 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 22 km (13 miles) from Midland (c. 111 100 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Odessa (c. 99 900 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from West Odessa (c. 22 700 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Andrews (c. 11 100 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Monahans (c. 7 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kermit, Monahans, Andrews.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 8 km ESE of Gardendale, Texas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -102.3064° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.9838° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.62 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km ESE of Gardendale, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-02-19 20:54:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-19 21:08:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 168 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.048 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 75 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb_lg The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70007t7l Id of event.
Event Code 70007t7l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007t7l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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