Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near Garden City in Texas

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Garden City in Texas. Id of earthquake: us7000n8wl. Event ids that are associated: us7000n8wl. Exact location, longitude -101.7037° West, latitude 31.7105° North, depth = 3.536 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 3.536 km (2 miles). The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:38:53 / 4:38 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 23/08/24 / 2024-08-23 04:38:53 / August 23, 2024 @ 4:38 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was West Odessa, Odessa, Big Spring (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Midland (c. 111 100 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Odessa (c. 99 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Big Spring (c. 27 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from West Odessa (c. 22 700 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 27 km SW of Garden City, Texas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-101.7037° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.7105° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.536 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	27 km SW of Garden City, Texas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-08-23 04:38:53	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-23 04:45:20	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	158	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	36	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.279	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.61 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	32	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb_lg	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000n8wl	Id of event.
Event Code	7000n8wl	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000n8wl,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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