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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Coyanosa in Texas


Earthquake location 31.1536S, -103.2531WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Coyanosa in Texas. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 2.02 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us6000cshd. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000cshd. Exact location of earthquake, -103.2531° West, 31.1536° North, depth 2.02 km. The temblor was reported at 14:30:29 / 2:30 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/11/20 / 2020-11-25 14:30:29 / November 25, 2020 @ 2:30 pm.

Nearby 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 Monahans, Fort Stockton, Pecos. Earthquake epicenter was 38 km (23 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Fort Stockton (c. 8 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Monahans (c. 7 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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 two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 20 km WSW of Coyanosa, Texas.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -103.2531° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.1536° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.02 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20 km WSW of Coyanosa, 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 14:30:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-25 14:48:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 139 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 0.028 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 41 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 us6000cshd Id of event.
Event Code 6000cshd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000cshd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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