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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Mentone in Texas

Posted by admin on August 17, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 31.608S, -103.961WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Mentone in Texas on Saturday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000n7jb, tx2024qckj. Id of event: tx2024qckj. The temblor was reported at 00:08:05 / 12:08 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 17/08/24 / 2024-08-17 00:08:05 / August 17, 2024 @ 12:08 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 7.0099 km (4 miles). Exact location, longitude -103.961° West, latitude 31.608° North, depth = 7.0099 km.

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

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-eight 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. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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 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: 35 km WSW of Mentone, Texas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -103.961° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.608° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.0099 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 2024-08-17 00:08:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-17 00:31:33 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 148 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 13 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 0.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 55 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 tx2024qckj Id of event.
Event Code 2024qckj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000n7jb,tx2024qckj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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