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Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 54 km NW of Toyah, Texas


Earthquake location 31.6623S, -104.205WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Toyah in Texas. Event id: us7000mpkt. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000mpkt. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.556 km (5 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -104.205 West, latitude 31.6623 North, depth = 8.556 km. The temblor was detected at 05:56:14 / 5:56 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/06/24 / 2024-06-02 05:56:14 / June 2, 2024 @ 5:56 am.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pecos.

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 54 km NW of Toyah, Texas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.205° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.6623° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.556 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54 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 2024-06-02 05:56:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-06-02 06:07:47 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 129 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 45 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.232 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 49 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 us7000mpkt Id of event.
Event Code 7000mpkt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mpkt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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