Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Mentone in Texas

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Mentone in Texas. Unique identifier: us7000n7if. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000n7if. Exact location of event, longitude -103.9572 West, latitude 31.6063 North, depth = 8.658 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/08/24 / 2024-08-16 21:37:34 / August 16, 2024 @ 9:37 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.658 km (5 miles). The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:37:34 / 9:37 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pecos (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 48 km (30 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 35 km WSW of Mentone, Texas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-103.9572° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.6063° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.658 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	35 km WSW of Mentone, Texas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-08-16 21:37:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-16 21:52:05	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	2.2	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	121	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	34	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.041	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.38 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	53	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	us7000n7if	Id of event.
Event Code	7000n7if	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000n7if,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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