Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Ackerly in Texas

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Ackerly in Texas. Exact location of earthquake, -102.044° West, 32.407° North, depth 8.5205 km. Unique identifier: tx2024shmf. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000nef4, tx2024shmf. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.5205 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 05:46:35 / 5:46 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/09/24 / 2024-09-17 05:46:35 / September 17, 2024 @ 5:46 am.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was West Odessa, Odessa, Seminole (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 46 km (28 miles) from Midland (c. 111 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Odessa (c. 99 900 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Big Spring (c. 27 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from West Odessa (c. 22 700 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Andrews (c. 11 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 33 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-102.044° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.407° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.5205 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	33 km WSW 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	2024-09-17 05:46:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-17 13:15:16	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	9	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	132	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	31	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	68	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	tx2024shmf	Id of event.
Event Code	2024shmf	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nef4,tx2024shmf,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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