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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag strikes near Mentone in Texas

Posted by admin on October 28, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 31.6882S, -104.1339WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was reported 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Mentone in Texas on Wednesday. Exact location of event, longitude -104.1339 West, latitude 31.6882 North, depth = 5 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 14:07:37 / 2:07 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000c6s7. Event ids that are associated: us7000c6s7. Global time and date of event 28/10/20 / 2020-10-28 14:07:37 / October 28, 2020 @ 2:07 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 26 100 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 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. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 50 km W of Mentone, Texas. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.1339° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.6882° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50 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 2020-10-28 14:07:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-28 14:20:22 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 234 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 0.26 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 49 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000c6s7 Id of event.
Event Code 7000c6s7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000c6s7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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