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


Earthquake location 32.411S, -102.062WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Ackerly in Texas. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8.0566 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -102.062° West, latitude 32.411° North, depth = 8.0566 km. Global time and date of event 21/09/24 / 2024-09-21 09:27:00 / September 21, 2024 @ 9:27 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000ntgd, tx2024spbr. Unique identifier: tx2024spbr. The temblor was reported at 09:27:00 / 9:27 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was West Odessa, Odessa, Seminole. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 46 km (29 miles) from Midland (c. 111 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Odessa (c. 99 900 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Big Spring (c. 27 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from West Odessa (c. 22 700 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Andrews (c. 11 100 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. 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-four 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: 34 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -102.062° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.411° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.0566 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34 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 2024-09-21 09:27:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-21 09:52:33 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 129 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 0.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 48 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 tx2024spbr Id of event.
Event Code 2024spbr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ntgd,tx2024spbr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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