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

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Ackerly in Texas on Thursday. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:11:09 / 8:11 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -101.783 West, latitude 32.337 North, depth = 6.1768 km. Event id: tx2024qzwf. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000nnjm, tx2024qzwf. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/08/24 / 2024-08-29 20:11:09 / August 29, 2024 @ 8:11 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.1768 km (4 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Andrews, Lamesa, Midland. Earthquake epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Midland (c. 111 100 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Big Spring (c. 27 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Andrews (c. 11 100 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Lamesa (c. 9 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 21 km SSW of Ackerly, Texas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-101.783° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.337° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.1768 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	21 km SSW of Ackerly, Texas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-08-29 20:11:09	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-29 20:21:35	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	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	38	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0	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	41	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	tx2024qzwf	Id of event.
Event Code	2024qzwf	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000nnjm,tx2024qzwf,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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