Minor earthquake: M3.8 quake has struck near Toyah in Texas

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was reported 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Toyah in Texas on Thursday. Exact location of event, longitude -104.068 West, latitude 31.567 North, depth = 7.1212 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/09/24 / 2024-09-26 07:56:50 / September 26, 2024 @ 7:56 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.1212 km (4 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000ngia, tx2024sycb. Unique identifier: tx2024sycb. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:56:50 / 7:56 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pecos.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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: 38 km NW of Toyah, Texas. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-104.068° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.567° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.1212 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	38 km NW of Toyah, Texas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-09-26 07:56:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-26 08:07:22	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	automatic	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	222	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	16	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	0.2 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	127	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	tx2024sycb	Id of event.
Event Code	2024sycb	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000ngia,tx2024sycb,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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