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Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Toyah in Texas


Earthquake location 31.668S, -104.184WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Toyah in Texas. Id of earthquake: tx2024qjds. Event ids that are associated: tx2024qjds. The temblor was detected at 16:40:07 / 4:40 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.5741 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 20/08/24 / 2024-08-20 16:40:07 / August 20, 2024 @ 4:40 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -104.184° West, latitude 31.668° North, depth = 6.5741 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pecos (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 53 km NW of Toyah, Texas.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.184° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.668° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.5741 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53 km NW 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 2024-08-20 16:40:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-20 16:50:04 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 138 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 ,tx, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 37 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 0.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58 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 tx2024qjds Id of event.
Event Code 2024qjds An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,tx2024qjds, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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