Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag has occurred near Odessa in Texas

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Odessa in Texas. The temblor was reported at 05:24:48 / 5:24 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -102.2800353° West, latitude 31.91986084° North, depth = 7.360880534 km. Unique identifier: tx2021fadl. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000dj12, tx2021fadl. The epicenter was at a depth of 7.360880534 km (5 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/03/21 / 2021-03-13 05:24:48 / March 13, 2021 @ 5:24 am.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kermit, Monahans, Andrews (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 21 km (13 miles) from Midland (c. 111 100 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Odessa (c. 99 900 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from West Odessa (c. 22 700 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Andrews (c. 11 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Monahans (c. 7 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days eighteen 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 quakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 11 km NE of Odessa, Texas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-102.2800353° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.91986084° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.360880534 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11 km NE of Odessa, Texas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2021-03-13 05:24:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-03-13 05:42:39	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	33	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.3	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	172	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	17	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0262194827	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	69	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	tx2021fadl	Id of event.
Event Code	2021fadl	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000dj12,tx2021fadl,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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