Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Garden City in Texas

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Garden City in Texas on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/06/24 / 2024-06-13 11:12:23 / June 13, 2024 @ 11:12 am. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:12:23 / 11:12 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000ms3v. Id of event: us7000ms3v. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -101.7104 West, latitude 31.7082 North, depth = 5 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was West Odessa, Big Spring, Odessa (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Midland (c. 111 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Odessa (c. 99 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Big Spring (c. 27 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from West Odessa (c. 22 700 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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: 27 km SW of Garden City, Texas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-101.7104° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.7082° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	27 km SW of Garden 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	2024-06-13 11:12:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-06-13 11:24:45	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	33	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.32	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.54 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	44	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb_lg	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000ms3v	Id of event.
Event Code	7000ms3v	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000ms3v,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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