Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Hermleigh in Texas

A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Hermleigh in Texas on Saturday. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:08:31 / 9:08 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -100.696° West, 32.744° North, depth 3.4424 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000nge5, tx2024orqm. Id of event: tx2024orqm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.4424 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/07/24 / 2024-07-27 21:08:31 / July 27, 2024 @ 9:08 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Abilene, Big Spring, Post (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 96 km (60 miles) from Abilene (c. 117 100 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Big Spring (c. 27 300 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Snyder (c. 11 200 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Sweetwater (c. 10 900 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Post (c. 5 400 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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: 13 km NNE of Hermleigh, Texas. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-100.696° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.744° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.4424 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13 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	2024-07-27 21:08:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-07-27 21:29:26	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.773	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	312	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	44	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.3 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	38	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	tx2024orqm	Id of event.
Event Code	2024orqm	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000nge5,tx2024orqm,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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