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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 42 km NW of Toyah, Texas

Posted by admin on October 21, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 31.5546S, -104.1454WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Toyah in Texas. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000cajp. Id of event: us6000cajp. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/10/20 / 2020-10-21 09:58:48 / October 21, 2020 @ 9:58 am. Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -104.1454° West, 31.5546° North. The temblor was picked up at 09:58:48 / 9:58 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pecos. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 64 km (39 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop).

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

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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: 42 km NW of Toyah, Texas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.1454° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.5546° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42 km NW of Toyah, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-10-21 09:58:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-21 10:13:11 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 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 0.3 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 55 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 us6000cajp Id of event.
Event Code 6000cajp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000cajp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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