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Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Gardendale in Texas

Posted by admin on March 22, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 31.9765S, -102.3096WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Gardendale in Texas. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/03/20 / 2020-03-22 06:19:25 / March 22, 2020 @ 6:19 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:19:25 / 12:19 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70008dy6. Id of event: us70008dy6. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -102.3096 West, latitude 31.9765 North, depth = 5 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kermit, Monahans, Andrews (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 22 km (14 miles) from Midland (c. 111 100 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Odessa (c. 99 900 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from West Odessa (c. 22 700 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Andrews (c. 11 100 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Monahans (c. 7 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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 SE of Gardendale, Texas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -102.3096° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.9765° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km SE 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 2020-03-22 06:19:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-22 06:30:15 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 138 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 0.248 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 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 us70008dy6 Id of event.
Event Code 70008dy6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008dy6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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