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Minor earthquake: M3.4 quake has struck near Toyah in Texas


Earthquake location 31.666S, -104.192WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Toyah in Texas. The epicenter was at a depth of 6.0999 km (4 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000n9xs, tx2024myet. Id of event: tx2024myet. Exact location of event, longitude -104.192 West, latitude 31.666 North, depth = 6.0999 km. The temblor was detected at 00:04:35 / 12:04 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/07/24 / 2024-07-03 00:04:35 / July 3, 2024 @ 12:04 am.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pecos (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 72 km (44 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 54 km NW of Toyah, Texas.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.192° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.666° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.0999 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 2024-07-03 00:04:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-03 00:29:16 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 3.912 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 29 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 62 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 tx2024myet Id of event.
Event Code 2024myet An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000n9xs,tx2024myet, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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