A 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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