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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Hermleigh in Texas

Posted by admin on July 23, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 32.7297S, -100.6943WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Hermleigh in Texas. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The temblor was detected at 04:56:51 / 4:56 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/07/24 / 2024-07-23 04:56:51 / July 23, 2024 @ 4:56 am. Exact location of earthquake, -100.6943° West, 32.7297° North, depth 5 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000ner6. Unique identifier: us6000ner6.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sweetwater, Snyder (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 21 km (13 miles) from Snyder (c. 11 200 pop), 39 km (25 miles) from Sweetwater (c. 10 900 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days thirteen 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 earthquakes 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. 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: 12 km NNE of Hermleigh, Texas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -100.6943° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.7297° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12 km NNE of Hermleigh, 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 04:56:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-23 05:07:44 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 148 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 39 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.068 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 30 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb_lg The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000ner6 Id of event.
Event Code 6000ner6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ner6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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