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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 10 km NNE of Odessa, Texas


Earthquake location 31.9279S, -102.3046WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Odessa in Texas. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:53:52 / 8:53 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/08/20 / 2020-08-01 20:53:52 / August 1, 2020 @ 8:53 pm. Exact location, longitude -102.3046° West, latitude 31.9279° North, depth = 11.72 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 11.72 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us6000b85p. Event ids that are associated: us6000b85p.

The epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) from Midland (c. 111 100 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Odessa (c. 99 900 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from West Odessa (c. 22 700 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Andrews (c. 11 100 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Monahans (c. 7 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kermit, Monahans, Andrews (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 10 km NNE of Odessa, Texas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -102.3046° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.9279° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.72 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10 km NNE of Odessa, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-08-01 20:53:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-01 21:05:53 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 6 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.8 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 123 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 0.282 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 35 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb_lg The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000b85p Id of event.
Event Code 6000b85p An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000b85p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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