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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Odessa in Texas


Earthquake location 31.9356S, -102.303WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Odessa in Texas on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 02/03/20 / 2020-03-02 05:58:16 / March 2, 2020 @ 5:58 am UTC/GMT. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:58:16 / 11:58 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -102.303° West, latitude 31.9356° North, depth = 5 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us600087r0. Id of event: us600087r0.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kermit, Monahans, Andrews (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 22 km (14 miles) from Midland (c. 111 100 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Odessa (c. 99 900 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from West Odessa (c. 22 700 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Andrews (c. 11 100 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Monahans (c. 7 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 11 km NNE of Odessa, Texas. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -102.303° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.9356° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km NNE of Odessa, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-03-02 05:58:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-02 06:13:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 21 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 146 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 0.278 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 41 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 us600087r0 Id of event.
Event Code 600087r0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600087r0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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