Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag has occurred near Toyah in Texas

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Toyah in Texas. The temblor was picked up at 11:51:10 / 11:51 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -104.2149 West, latitude 31.6733 North, depth = 3.902 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/05/24 / 2024-05-28 11:51:10 / May 28, 2024 @ 11:51 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.902 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000n1ge. Id of event: us6000n1ge.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 26 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Carlsbad, Pecos (min 5000 pop).

Each 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 five, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 56 km NW of Toyah, Texas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-104.2149° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.6733° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.902 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	56 km NW of Toyah, Texas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-05-28 11:51:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-28 11:59:38	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.5	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	223	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	32	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.242	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.36 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	52	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mwr	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000n1ge	Id of event.
Event Code	6000n1ge	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000n1ge,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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