Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Falls City in Texas

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Falls City in Texas on Tuesday. Id of earthquake: tx2024hzbw. Event ids that are associated: tx2024hzbw, us6000mt5g. Exact location, longitude -98.211° West, latitude 28.814° North, depth = 8.96 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.96 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/04/24 / 2024-04-23 08:05:39 / April 23, 2024 @ 8:05 am. The temblor was detected at 08:05:39 / 8:05 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 73 km (45 miles) from San Antonio (c. 1 327 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Beeville (c. 12 900 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Lackland Air Force Base (c. 9 900 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Pleasanton (c. 8 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Kirby (c. 8 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Alamo Heights, Lackland Air Force Base, Kirby (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, 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 in the same area.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.211° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	28.814° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.96 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	26 km SW of Falls City, Texas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-04-23 08:05:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-04-24 12:00:34	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	139	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	11	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	0.4 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	58	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	tx2024hzbw	Id of event.
Event Code	2024hzbw	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,tx2024hzbw,us6000mt5g,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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