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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 42 km W of Mentone, Texas

Posted by admin on May 13, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 31.6927S, -104.0493WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Mentone in Texas. Event id: us70009fl8. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70009fl8. Exact location of event, longitude -104.0493 West, latitude 31.6927 North, depth = 5 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 14:39:45 / 2:39 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 13/05/20 / 2020-05-13 20:39:45 / May 13, 2020 @ 8:39 pm UTC/GMT.

Event epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pecos. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 42 km W of Mentone, Texas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.0493° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.6927° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42km 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 2020-05-13 20:39:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-13 20:54:12 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 138 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 0.221 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58 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 us70009fl8 Id of event.
Event Code 70009fl8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009fl8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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