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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag was detected near Toyah in Texas


Earthquake location 31.597S, -103.956WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Toyah in Texas. Exact location of event, longitude -103.956 West, latitude 31.597 North, depth = 6.8559 km. Id of earthquake: tx2024tgrx. Event ids that are associated: us7000nhc6, tx2024tgrx. Exact time and date of earthquake 01/10/24 / 2024-10-01 00:54:14 / October 1, 2024 @ 12:54 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 00:54:14 / 12:54 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6.8559 km (4 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 48 km (30 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pecos. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days ninety-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 34 km NNW of Toyah, Texas. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -103.956° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.597° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.8559 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34 km NNW 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 2024-10-01 00:54:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-01 01:09:35 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 3.8 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.894 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 178 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 0.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 71 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 tx2024tgrx Id of event.
Event Code 2024tgrx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nhc6,tx2024tgrx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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