Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 17 km SE of Stockdale, Texas

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Stockdale in Texas. Event id: tx2024nizx. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: tx2024nizx. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.853 West, latitude 29.112 North, depth = 4.6312 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/07/24 / 2024-07-08 22:06:14 / July 8, 2024 @ 10:06 pm. The temblor was detected at 22:06:14 / 10:06 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4.6312 km (3 miles).

Event epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from San Antonio (c. 1 327 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from New Braunfels (c. 57 700 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Schertz (c. 31 500 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Seguin (c. 25 200 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Universal City (c. 18 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Alamo Heights, San Antonio, New Braunfels (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.853° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	29.112° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.6312 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17 km SE of Stockdale, Texas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-07-08 22:06:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-07-08 22:12:02	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	automatic	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	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	26	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	0.9 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	113	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	tx2024nizx	Id of event.
Event Code	2024nizx	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,tx2024nizx,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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