Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag was detected near Alpine in Texas

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Alpine in Texas on Sunday. Exact time and date of earthquake 10/05/20 / 2020-05-10 11:16:21 / May 10, 2020 @ 11:16 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 05:16:21 / 5:16 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -103.3457 West, latitude 30.2896 North, depth = 5 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Id of earthquake: us70009dnz. Event ids that are associated: us70009dnz.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alpine. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 31 km (19 miles) from Alpine (c. 5 900 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nine 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. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 31 km ESE of Alpine, Texas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-103.3457° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	30.2896° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	31km ESE of Alpine, Texas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-05-10 11:16:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-10 11:45:31	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		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	0.266	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.36 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	92	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	us70009dnz	Id of event.
Event Code	70009dnz	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70009dnz,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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