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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Falls City in Texas

Posted by admin on January 3, 2021 0 Comments

Earthquake location 28.8881S, -98.1163WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Falls City in Texas. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -98.1163° West, 28.8881° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/01/21 / 2021-01-03 17:34:50 / January 3, 2021 @ 5:34 pm. The temblor was picked up at 17:34:50 / 5:34 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000d5ab. Id of event: us6000d5ab.

Event epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from San Antonio (c. 1 327 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Schertz (c. 31 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Seguin (c. 25 200 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Universal City (c. 18 500 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Converse (c. 18 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Seguin, Cibolo, Schertz (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 14 km SW of Falls City, Texas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.1163° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.8881° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14 km SW of Falls City, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-01-03 17:34:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-03 18:28:36 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 129 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 0.132 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 75 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 us6000d5ab Id of event.
Event Code 6000d5ab An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000d5ab, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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