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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Mentone in Texas

Posted by admin on August 18, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 31.618S, -103.96WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Mentone in Texas. The temblor was picked up at 21:37:34 / 9:37 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 6.3306 km, -103.96° West, 31.618° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.3306 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 16/08/24 / 2024-08-16 21:37:34 / August 16, 2024 @ 9:37 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: tx2024qcfn. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000n7if, tx2024qcfn.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pecos (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 49 km (31 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 have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes 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 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -103.96° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.618° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.3306 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 2024-08-18 17:11:06 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 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 27 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 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 tx2024qcfn Id of event.
Event Code 2024qcfn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000n7if,tx2024qcfn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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