Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag was detected near Toyah in Texas

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Toyah in Texas. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/06/24 / 2024-06-19 23:31:59 / June 19, 2024 @ 11:31 pm. Exact location of event, depth 6.2665 km, -104.183° West, 31.681° North. The temblor was detected at 23:31:59 / 11:31 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: tx2024makc. Event ids that are associated: us7000mti3, tx2024makc. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.2665 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Carlsbad, Pecos (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 26 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 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 one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 54 km NW of Toyah, Texas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-104.183° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.681° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.2665 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	2024-06-19 23:31:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-06-19 23:48:36	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	3.986	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	178	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	39	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1	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	63	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	tx2024makc	Id of event.
Event Code	2024makc	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000mti3,tx2024makc,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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