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Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near Karnes City in Texas

Posted by admin on April 18, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 29.0601S, -97.8192WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Karnes City in Texas. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/04/20 / 2020-04-18 13:33:34 / April 18, 2020 @ 1:33 pm. Exact location, longitude -97.8192° West, latitude 29.0601° North, depth = 5 km. The temblor was reported at 07:33:34 / 7:33 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us70008zdf. Event ids that are associated: us70008zdf.

Earthquake epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from San Antonio (c. 1 327 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from New Braunfels (c. 57 700 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Schertz (c. 31 500 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Seguin (c. 25 200 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Universal City (c. 18 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Alamo Heights, New Braunfels, San Antonio. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 20 km NNE of Karnes City, Texas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.8192° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 29.0601° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km NNE of Karnes City, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-18 13:33:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-18 13:48:12 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 2.7 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 0.204 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 135 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 us70008zdf Id of event.
Event Code 70008zdf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008zdf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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