Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Mentone in Texas

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Mentone in Texas. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000md5y, tx2024hsil. Id of event: tx2024hsil. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.7277 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:27:57 / 3:27 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -103.673° West, 31.808° North, depth 7.7277 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 19/04/24 / 2024-04-19 15:27:57 / April 19, 2024 @ 3:27 pm UTC/GMT.

Event epicenter was 46 km (29 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Kermit (c. 5 700 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kermit, Pecos.

Every 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-103.673° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.808° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.7277 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13 km NNW of Mentone, Texas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-04-19 15:27:57	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-12 15:48:40	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	23	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	53	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	tx2024hsil	Id of event.
Event Code	2024hsil	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000md5y,tx2024hsil,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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