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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Mentone in Texas

Posted by admin on July 23, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 31.623S, -104.004WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Mentone in Texas on Tuesday. Exact location, longitude -104.004° West, latitude 31.623° North, depth = 7.5867 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: tx2024okgl. Id of event: tx2024okgl. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.5867 km (5 miles). The temblor was picked up at 20:07:15 / 8:07 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/07/24 / 2024-07-23 20:07:15 / July 23, 2024 @ 8:07 pm.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pecos (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1,300,000 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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 39 km WSW of Mentone, Texas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.004° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.623° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.5867 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39 km WSW of Mentone, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-07-23 20:07:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-23 20:19:52 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 26 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0 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 41 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 tx2024okgl Id of event.
Event Code 2024okgl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,tx2024okgl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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