Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near Mentone in Texas

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Mentone in Texas. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/09/24 / 2024-09-25 22:17:11 / September 25, 2024 @ 10:17 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000ngg9, tx2024sxja. Unique identifier: tx2024sxja. Exact location of earthquake, -103.944° West, 31.625° North, depth 7.2534 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.2534 km (5 miles). The temblor was reported at 22:17:11 / 10:17 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pecos (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days eighty-nine 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. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 33 km WSW of Mentone, Texas. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-103.944° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.625° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.2534 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	33 km WSW of Mentone, Texas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-09-25 22:17:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-25 22:40:31	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	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	158	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	20	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	55	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	tx2024sxja	Id of event.
Event Code	2024sxja	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000ngg9,tx2024sxja,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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