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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 21 km N of Stanton, Texas


Earthquake location 32.319S, -101.817WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Stanton in Texas. Exact location of earthquake, -101.817° West, 32.319° North, depth 6.4697 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.4697 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/05/24 / 2024-05-26 21:10:32 / May 26, 2024 @ 9:10 pm. Unique identifier: tx2024kijj. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000n15f, tx2024kijj. The temblor was detected at 21:10:32 / 9:10 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 43 km (27 miles) from Midland (c. 111 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Odessa (c. 99 900 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Big Spring (c. 27 300 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Andrews (c. 11 100 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Lamesa (c. 9 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Odessa, Andrews, Lamesa (min 5000 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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 N of Stanton, Texas.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -101.817° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.319° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.4697 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21 km N of Stanton, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-05-26 21:10:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-26 21:22:10 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 26 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 0.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 47 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 tx2024kijj Id of event.
Event Code 2024kijj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000n15f,tx2024kijj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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