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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Mentone in Texas

Posted by admin on March 26, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 31.7051S, -104.0556WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Mentone in Texas on Thursday. Exact location, longitude -104.0556° West, latitude 31.7051° North, depth = 5 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:29:00 / 12:29 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us70008gmr. Ids that are associated to the event: us70008gmr. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/03/20 / 2020-03-26 18:29:00 / March 26, 2020 @ 6:29 pm.

The epicenter was 62 km (38 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pecos. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 43 km W of Mentone, Texas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.0556° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.7051° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 43km W of Mentone, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-03-26 18:29:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-26 19:13:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.6 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 148 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 0.23 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 52 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70008gmr Id of event.
Event Code 70008gmr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008gmr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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