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Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Gardendale in Texas


Earthquake location 31.9378S, -102.3087WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Gardendale in Texas. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/11/20 / 2020-11-09 11:56:46 / November 9, 2020 @ 11:56 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 1.4 km (1 miles). The temblor was picked up at 11:56:46 / 11:56 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 1.4 km, -102.3087° West, 31.9378° North. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000ccgn. Unique identifier: us7000ccgn.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kermit, Monahans, Andrews (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) from Midland (c. 111 100 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Odessa (c. 99 900 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from West Odessa (c. 22 700 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Andrews (c. 11 100 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Monahans (c. 7 000 pop).

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

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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: 11 km SE of Gardendale, Texas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -102.3087° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.9378° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11 km SE of Gardendale, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-11-09 11:56:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-09 12:15:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 14 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.2 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 144 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 0.273 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 36 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 us7000ccgn Id of event.
Event Code 7000ccgn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ccgn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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