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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Garden City in Texas


Earthquake location 31.705S, -101.715WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Garden City in Texas on Friday. Exact location of event, depth 9.8145 km, -101.715° West, 31.705° North. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000ntbu, tx2024snux. Unique identifier: tx2024snux. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:58:55 / 4:58 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/09/24 / 2024-09-20 16:58:55 / September 20, 2024 @ 4:58 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 9.8145 km (6 miles).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was West Odessa, Big Spring, Odessa. Earthquake epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Midland (c. 111 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Odessa (c. 99 900 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Big Spring (c. 27 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from West Odessa (c. 22 700 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 28 km SW of Garden City, Texas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -101.715° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.705° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.8145 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28 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 2024-09-20 16:58:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-20 17:22:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 148 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 24 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 60 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 tx2024snux Id of event.
Event Code 2024snux An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ntbu,tx2024snux, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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