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Minor earthquake: M3.8 quake has struck near Mentone in Texas

Posted by admin on March 26, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 31.6939S, -103.9912WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) strikes 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Mentone in Texas on Thursday. Id of earthquake: us70008gas. Event ids that are associated: us70008gas. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/03/20 / 2020-03-26 08:52:42 / March 26, 2020 @ 8:52 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.41 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 02:52:42 / 2:52 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -103.9912° West, 31.6939° North, depth 8.41 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 26 100 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Kermit (c. 5 700 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kermit, Carlsbad, Pecos.

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 37 km W of Mentone, Texas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -103.9912° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.6939° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37km 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 08:52:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-26 09:05:45 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 3.4 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.426 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 222 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 0.243 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 44 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70008gas Id of event.
Event Code 70008gas An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008gas, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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