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Minor earthquake 3.2 mag, 40 km W of Mentone, Texas

Posted by admin on March 26, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 31.6962S, -104.03WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Mentone in Texas. The temblor was picked up at 12:52:26 / 12:52 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 26/03/20 / 2020-03-26 18:52:26 / March 26, 2020 @ 6:52 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us70008gnh. Ids that are associated to the event: us70008gnh. Exact location of earthquake, -104.03° West, 31.6962° North, depth 6.38 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.38 km (4 miles).

Event epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pecos (min 5000 pop).

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 40 km W of Mentone, Texas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.03° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.6962° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.38 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40km 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 18:52:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-26 19:06:58 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 2 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 158 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 0.211 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 50 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 us70008gnh Id of event.
Event Code 70008gnh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008gnh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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