Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Toyah in Texas

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Toyah in Texas. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.981 km (5 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000n7ja. Unique identifier: us7000n7ja. Exact time and date of earthquake 17/08/24 / 2024-08-17 00:07:50 / August 17, 2024 @ 12:07 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -103.9612° West, 31.5998° North, depth 7.981 km. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:07:50 / 12:07 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pecos (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 49 km (30 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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 NNW of Toyah, Texas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-103.9612° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.5998° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.981 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	35 km NNW 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	2024-08-17 00:07:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-17 00:21:59	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	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	21	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.048	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	70	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	us7000n7ja	Id of event.
Event Code	7000n7ja	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000n7ja,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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