Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Garden City in Texas

A 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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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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