Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near Hermleigh in Texas

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Hermleigh in Texas on Wednesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1.142 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -100.6602 West, latitude 32.7724 North, depth = 1.142 km. The temblor was picked up at 20:45:55 / 8:45 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 24/07/24 / 2024-07-24 20:45:55 / July 24, 2024 @ 8:45 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us6000nfe5. Event ids that are associated: us6000nfe5.

The epicenter was 25 km (15 miles) from Snyder (c. 11 200 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Sweetwater (c. 10 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sweetwater, Snyder (min 5000 pop).

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 two, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 17 km NNE of Hermleigh, Texas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-100.6602° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.7724° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.142 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17 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	2024-07-24 20:45:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-07-24 20:57:31	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	158	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	22	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.119	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.23 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	36	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	us6000nfe5	Id of event.
Event Code	6000nfe5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000nfe5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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