Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag has occurred near Nixon in Texas

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Nixon in Texas on Wednesday. Exact location of event, longitude -97.82 West, latitude 29.08 North, depth = 4.9561 km. Id of earthquake: tx2024hnne. Event ids that are associated: us7000mcjw, tx2024hnne. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/04/24 / 2024-04-17 00:11:00 / April 17, 2024 @ 12:11 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.9561 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 00:11:00 / 12:11 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 76 km (47 miles) from San Antonio (c. 1 327 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from New Braunfels (c. 57 700 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Schertz (c. 31 500 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Seguin (c. 25 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Universal City (c. 18 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alamo Heights, Beeville, San Antonio (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 21 km SSW of Nixon, Texas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.82° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	29.08° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.9561 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	21 km SSW of Nixon, Texas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-04-17 00:11:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-15 04:53:24	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	158	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	24	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.2 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	48	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	tx2024hnne	Id of event.
Event Code	2024hnne	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000mcjw,tx2024hnne,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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