Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Mentone in Texas

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Mentone in Texas on Monday. Global time and date of event 26/08/24 / 2024-08-26 01:55:40 / August 26, 2024 @ 1:55 am UTC/GMT. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:55:40 / 1:55 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: tx2024qszo, us7000n9f8. Unique identifier: us7000n9f8. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.355 km (5 miles). Exact location of event, depth 8.355 km, -103.953° West, 31.6034° North.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 48 km (30 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pecos (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days seventy-two 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. 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: 35 km WSW of Mentone, Texas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-103.953° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.6034° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.355 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	2024-08-26 01:55:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-26 02:58:29	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	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,tx,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	29	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.042	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.23 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	70	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	us7000n9f8	Id of event.
Event Code	7000n9f8	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,tx2024qszo,us7000n9f8,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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