Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag was detected near Stanton in Texas

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Stanton in Texas. Event id: us6000dhs2. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000dhs2. The temblor was detected at 09:28:45 / 9:28 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -101.7859° West, 32.3013° North, depth 5 km. Global time and date of event 15/02/21 / 2021-02-15 09:28:45 / February 15, 2021 @ 9:28 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Odessa, Andrews, Lamesa (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Midland (c. 111 100 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Odessa (c. 99 900 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Big Spring (c. 27 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Andrews (c. 11 100 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Lamesa (c. 9 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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 eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 19 km N of Stanton, Texas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-101.7859° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.3013° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	19 km N of Stanton, Texas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2021-02-15 09:28:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-02-15 09:44:20	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	168	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	0.671	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.42 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	mb_lg	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000dhs2	Id of event.
Event Code	6000dhs2	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000dhs2,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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