Minor earthquake 3.5 mag, 15 km N of Stanton, Texas

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was reported 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Stanton in Texas on Monday. Exact location of event, longitude -101.7869903 West, latitude 32.27142334 North, depth = 5.404500326 km. Global time and date of event 15/02/21 / 2021-02-15 09:28:44 / February 15, 2021 @ 9:28 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: tx2021deyk. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000dhs2, tx2021deyk. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.404500326 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 09:28:44 / 9:28 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) from Midland (c. 111 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Odessa (c. 99 900 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Big Spring (c. 27 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from West Odessa (c. 22 700 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Andrews (c. 11 100 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Lamesa (c. 9 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was West Odessa, Odessa, Andrews.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nineteen 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. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 15 km N of Stanton, Texas. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-101.7869903° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.27142334° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.404500326 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15 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 09:28:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-03-05 21:08:05	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	3.614	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	189	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	tx	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,tx,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	19	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.07324308685	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.3 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	57	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	tx2021deyk	Id of event.
Event Code	2021deyk	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000dhs2,tx2021deyk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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