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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag strikes near Garden City in Texas


Earthquake location 31.7045S, -101.7115WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was reported 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Garden City in Texas on Saturday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000njce. Id of event: us6000njce. The temblor was reported at 13:34:46 / 1:34 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -101.7115 West, latitude 31.7045 North, depth = 0.739 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.739 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 10/08/24 / 2024-08-10 13:34:46 / August 10, 2024 @ 1:34 pm UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was West Odessa, Big Spring, Odessa (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 48 km (30 miles) from Midland (c. 111 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Odessa (c. 99 900 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Big Spring (c. 27 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from West Odessa (c. 22 700 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 28 km SW of Garden City, Texas.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -101.7115° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.7045° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.739 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28 km SW of Garden City, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-08-10 13:34:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-10 13:46:37 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.227 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 200 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 25 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.283 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 44 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb_lg The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000njce Id of event.
Event Code 6000njce An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000njce, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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