Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag has occurred near Toyah in Texas

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Toyah in Texas on Tuesday. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:53:08 / 4:53 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -104.191° West, latitude 31.674° North, depth = 4.9408 km. Global time and date of event 30/07/24 / 2024-07-30 16:53:08 / July 30, 2024 @ 4:53 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: tx2024owuo. Id of event: tx2024owuo. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.9408 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pecos. Earthquake epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 54 km NW of Toyah, Texas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-104.191° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.674° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.9408 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	54 km NW of Toyah, Texas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-07-30 16:53:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-07-30 17:00:24	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	158	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	,tx,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	21	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	0.4 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	104	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	tx2024owuo	Id of event.
Event Code	2024owuo	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,tx2024owuo,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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