Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Ackerly in Texas

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Ackerly in Texas. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.9346 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/07/24 / 2024-07-31 14:57:07 / July 31, 2024 @ 2:57 pm. The temblor was detected at 14:57:07 / 2:57 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: tx2024oymg. Unique identifier: tx2024oymg. Exact location of event, longitude -102.091 West, latitude 32.414 North, depth = 7.9346 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was West Odessa, Odessa, Seminole (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 46 km (29 miles) from Midland (c. 111 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Odessa (c. 99 900 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Big Spring (c. 27 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from West Odessa (c. 22 700 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Andrews (c. 11 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 37 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-102.091° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.414° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.9346 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	37 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-07-31 14:57:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-07-31 18:45:32	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	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	17	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	56	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	tx2024oymg	Id of event.
Event Code	2024oymg	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,tx2024oymg,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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