Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Big Lake in Texas

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Big Lake in Texas on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.8564 km (2 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -101.176° West, 31.215° North, depth 2.8564 km. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:57:28 / 10:57 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 02/05/24 / 2024-05-02 10:57:28 / May 2, 2024 @ 10:57 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: tx2024iptd. Event ids that are associated: us6000mvtn, tx2024iptd.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Angelo (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 75 km (47 miles) from San Angelo (c. 93 200 pop).

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 0 earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 27 km E of Big Lake, Texas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-101.176° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.215° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.8564 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	27 km E of Big Lake, Texas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-05-02 10:57:28	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-03 09:19:51	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	121	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	18	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.3	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	80	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	tx2024iptd	Id of event.
Event Code	2024iptd	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000mvtn,tx2024iptd,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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