Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Ackerly in Texas

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Ackerly in Texas on Tuesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 30/04/24 / 2024-04-30 09:07:34 / April 30, 2024 @ 9:07 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 09:07:34 / 9:07 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000mv5b, tx2024ilyl. Unique identifier: tx2024ilyl. Exact location of event, depth 8.1543 km, -102.032° West, 32.411° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 8.1543 km (5 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was West Odessa, Odessa, Seminole (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 46 km (29 miles) from Midland (c. 111 100 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Odessa (c. 99 900 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Big Spring (c. 27 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from West Odessa (c. 22 700 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Andrews (c. 11 100 pop).

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-102.032° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.411° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.1543 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	32 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-04-30 09:07:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-08 20:30:25	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	138	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	0.2 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	46	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	tx2024ilyl	Id of event.
Event Code	2024ilyl	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000mv5b,tx2024ilyl,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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