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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag has occurred near Mentone in Texas

Posted by admin on September 18, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 31.714S, -104.1048WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Mentone in Texas. Unique identifier: us7000bq0y. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000bq0y. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/09/20 / 2020-09-18 21:48:27 / September 18, 2020 @ 9:48 pm. The temblor was picked up at 21:48:27 / 9:48 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -104.1048 West, latitude 31.714 North, depth = 5 km.

The epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 26 100 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Carlsbad, Pecos (min 5000 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 four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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: 47 km W of Mentone, Texas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.1048° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.714° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 47 km 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 2020-09-18 21:48:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-18 22:00:50 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 222 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 0.228 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 43 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 us7000bq0y Id of event.
Event Code 7000bq0y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000bq0y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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