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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag strikes near Midland in Texas


Earthquake location 32.1007S, -102.1238WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Midland in Texas. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 1.67 km (1 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 25/11/20 / 2020-11-25 08:44:01 / November 25, 2020 @ 8:44 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -102.1238° West, latitude 32.1007° North, depth = 1.67 km. Unique identifier: us6000csdd. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000csdd. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:44:01 / 8:44 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lamesa, Big Spring, Andrews. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 12 km (8 miles) from Midland (c. 111 100 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Odessa (c. 99 900 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Big Spring (c. 27 300 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from West Odessa (c. 22 700 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Andrews (c. 11 100 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 one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 12 km NNW of Midland, Texas. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -102.1238° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.1007° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12 km NNW of Midland, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-11-25 08:44:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-25 09:10:46 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 30 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 179 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 0.148 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 32 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 us6000csdd Id of event.
Event Code 6000csdd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000csdd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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