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Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Stanton in Texas


Earthquake location 32.217S, -101.985WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Stanton in Texas on Wednesday. Exact location, longitude -101.985° West, latitude 32.217° North, depth = 9.4238 km. Unique identifier: tx2024nycy. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000mzqz, tx2024nycy. The temblor was reported at 04:41:40 / 4:41 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/07/24 / 2024-07-17 04:41:40 / July 17, 2024 @ 4:41 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.4238 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was West Odessa, Lamesa, Odessa (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 26 km (16 miles) from Midland (c. 111 100 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Odessa (c. 99 900 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Big Spring (c. 27 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from West Odessa (c. 22 700 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Andrews (c. 11 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days eleven 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. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 20 km WNW of Stanton, Texas.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -101.985° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.217° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.4238 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20 km WNW of Stanton, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-07-17 04:41:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-17 04:52:47 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 138 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 20 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 58 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 tx2024nycy Id of event.
Event Code 2024nycy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mzqz,tx2024nycy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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