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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Mentone in Texas

Posted by admin on July 26, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 31.6136S, -103.9665WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Mentone in Texas. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/07/24 / 2024-07-26 23:19:56 / July 26, 2024 @ 11:19 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 6.66 km (4 miles). The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:19:56 / 11:19 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -103.9665° West, latitude 31.6136° North, depth = 6.66 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000ng9q. Unique identifier: us6000ng9q.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pecos (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 50 km (31 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 36 km WSW of Mentone, Texas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -103.9665° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.6136° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.66 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36 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 2024-07-26 23:19:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-26 23:30:02 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 129 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 32 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.04 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 us6000ng9q Id of event.
Event Code 6000ng9q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ng9q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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