Minor earthquake: M3.5 quake has struck near Snyder in Texas

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Snyder in Texas. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/11/20 / 2020-11-15 04:27:02 / November 15, 2020 @ 4:27 am. The temblor was reported at 04:27:02 / 4:27 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -100.8785° West, 32.9075° North, depth 5 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Id of earthquake: us7000cf5p. Event ids that are associated: us7000cf5p.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sweetwater, Post, Snyder. Epicenter of the earthquake was 21 km (13 miles) from Snyder (c. 11 200 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Sweetwater (c. 10 900 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Post (c. 5 400 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 21 km N of Snyder, Texas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-100.8785° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.9075° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	21 km N of Snyder, Texas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-11-15 04:27:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-11-15 04:40:18	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	7	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.3	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	191	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	0.183	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.94 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	us7000cf5p	Id of event.
Event Code	7000cf5p	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000cf5p,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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