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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 36 km WSW of Mentone, Texas


Earthquake location 31.622S, -103.973WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Mentone in Texas on Friday. Exact location of event, longitude -103.973 West, latitude 31.622 North, depth = 6.3064 km. Unique identifier: tx2024opzi. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000ng9q, tx2024opzi. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:19:56 / 11:19 pm (local time epicenter). 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 of the earthquake was roughly 6.3064 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pecos (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 51 km (31 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days fifty-five 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 quakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 36 km WSW of Mentone, Texas. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -103.973° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.622° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.3064 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 23:35:28 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 automatic 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 138 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 ,us,tx, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 16 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 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 63 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 tx2024opzi Id of event.
Event Code 2024opzi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ng9q,tx2024opzi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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