Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag has occurred near Mentone in Texas

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Mentone in Texas. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:27:06 / 7:27 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us70008i15. Unique identifier: us70008i15. Global time and date of event 29/03/20 / 2020-03-29 01:27:06 / March 29, 2020 @ 1:27 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -103.975 West, latitude 31.7181 North, depth = 5 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kermit, Carlsbad, Pecos (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 26 100 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Kermit (c. 5 700 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 35 km W of Mentone, Texas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-103.975° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.7181° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	35km 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	2020-03-29 01:27:06	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-03-29 01:50:20	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	4.483	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	199	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	0.197	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.1 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	us70008i15	Id of event.
Event Code	70008i15	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70008i15,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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