Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag was detected near Ackerly in Texas

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) strikes 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Ackerly in Texas on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, -102.0109° West, 32.4026° North, depth 0 km. Event id: us7000ngva. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000ngva. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:24:53 / 5:24 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 0 km (0 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/09/24 / 2024-09-27 17:24:53 / September 27, 2024 @ 5:24 pm.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was West Odessa, Odessa, Seminole. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 45 km (28 miles) from Midland (c. 111 100 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Odessa (c. 99 900 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Big Spring (c. 27 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from West Odessa (c. 22 700 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Andrews (c. 11 100 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 30 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-102.0109° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.4026° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	30 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	2024-09-27 17:24:53	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-27 17:40:27	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	2.7	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	168	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	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	0.302	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.45 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	66	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb_lg	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000ngva	Id of event.
Event Code	7000ngva	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000ngva,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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