Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag strikes near Hermleigh in Texas

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Hermleigh in Texas. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/08/24 / 2024-08-14 07:12:29 / August 14, 2024 @ 7:12 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 3.3691 km (2 miles). The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:12:29 / 7:12 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -100.703° West, latitude 32.781° North, depth = 3.3691 km. Unique identifier: tx2024pxly. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000nk0u, tx2024pxly.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 21 km (13 miles) from Snyder (c. 11 200 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Sweetwater (c. 10 900 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Post (c. 5 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Post, Sweetwater, Snyder.

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-100.703° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.781° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.3691 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17 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	2024-08-14 07:12:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-14 07:37:06	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	4	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.3	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.268	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	190	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	12	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	0.1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	60	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	tx2024pxly	Id of event.
Event Code	2024pxly	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000nk0u,tx2024pxly,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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