Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag was detected near Westbrook in Texas

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) strikes 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Westbrook in Texas on Wednesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/06/24 / 2024-06-26 23:08:57 / June 26, 2024 @ 11:08 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 23:08:57 / 11:08 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1.445 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -101.0855 West, latitude 32.1428 North, depth = 1.445 km. Unique identifier: us6000n8ig. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000n8ig.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sweetwater, Snyder, Big Spring (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Big Spring (c. 27 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Snyder (c. 11 200 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Sweetwater (c. 10 900 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 24 km SSW of Westbrook, Texas. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-101.0855° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.1428° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.445 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	24 km SSW of Westbrook, Texas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-06-26 23:08:57	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-06-26 23:16:12	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	178	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	36	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.23	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.59 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	46	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	us6000n8ig	Id of event.
Event Code	6000n8ig	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000n8ig,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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