Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Van Horn in Texas

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 63 km NNE of Van Horn, Texas (39 miles) on Saturday. Global time and date of event 17/08/24 / 2024-08-17 12:13:34 / August 17, 2024 @ 12:13 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us7000n7lv. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000n7lv. The epicenter was at a depth of 6.545 km (4 miles). The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:13:34 / 12:13 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -104.541 West, latitude 31.5555 North, depth = 6.545 km.

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. 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 nineteen and in the last 365 days sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 63 km NNE of Van Horn, Texas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-104.541° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.5555° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.545 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	63 km NNE of Van Horn, 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 12:13:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-17 12:38:34	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	12	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.731	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.48 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	120	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	us7000n7lv	Id of event.
Event Code	7000n7lv	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000n7lv,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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