Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Amarillo in Texas

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Amarillo in Texas on Wednesday. Exact location of event, longitude -101.758 West, latitude 35.225 North, depth = 26.4893 km. Global time and date of event 26/06/24 / 2024-06-26 22:54:34 / June 26, 2024 @ 10:54 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 26.4893 km (16 miles). The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:54:34 / 10:54 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: tx2024mndk. Unique identifier: tx2024mndk.

Earthquake epicenter was 7 km (4 miles) from Amarillo (c. 190 700 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Hereford (c. 15 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Dumas (c. 14 700 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Canyon (c. 13 300 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Borger (c. 13 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hereford, Dumas, Borger (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days 0 earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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: 6 km E of Amarillo, Texas. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-101.758° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.225° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	26.4893 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6 km E of Amarillo, 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 22:54:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-06-27 13:24:58	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	121	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	,tx,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	11	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2	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	103	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	tx2024mndk	Id of event.
Event Code	2024mndk	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,tx2024mndk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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