Minor earthquake 3.8 mag, 54 km NW of Toyah, Texas

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was reported 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Toyah in Texas on Friday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.1383 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -104.192 West, latitude 31.67 North, depth = 6.1383 km. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:31:54 / 8:31 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: tx2024jfca. Event ids that are associated: tx2024jfca, us6000mxuf. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/05/24 / 2024-05-10 20:31:54 / May 10, 2024 @ 8:31 pm.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Carlsbad, Pecos (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 26 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-104.192° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.67° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.1383 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	54 km NW of Toyah, Texas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-05-10 20:31:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-11 20:38:46	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	2.9	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.291	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	222	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	,tx,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	42	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1	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	61	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	tx2024jfca	Id of event.
Event Code	2024jfca	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,tx2024jfca,us6000mxuf,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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