Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Hermleigh in Texas

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Hermleigh in Texas. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Global time and date of event 24/07/24 / 2024-07-24 16:48:29 / July 24, 2024 @ 4:48 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000nfb0. Unique identifier: us6000nfb0. Exact location of event, longitude -100.6548 West, latitude 32.7833 North, depth = 5 km. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:48:29 / 4:48 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) from Snyder (c. 11 200 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Sweetwater (c. 10 900 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sweetwater, Snyder. 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. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 19 km NNE of Hermleigh, Texas. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-100.6548° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.7833° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	19 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 16:48:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-07-24 16:59:46	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	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	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	20	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.131	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.47 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	43	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	us6000nfb0	Id of event.
Event Code	6000nfb0	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000nfb0,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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