Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag strikes near Ackerly in Texas

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was reported 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Ackerly in Texas on Friday. Event id: us6000nzla. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000nzla. Global time and date of event 18/10/24 / 2024-10-18 18:24:20 / October 18, 2024 @ 6:24 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -102.0437 West, latitude 32.4026 North, depth = 4.357 km. The temblor was detected at 18:24:20 / 6:24 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4.357 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 45 km (28 miles) from Midland (c. 111 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Odessa (c. 99 900 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Big Spring (c. 27 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from West Odessa (c. 22 700 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Andrews (c. 11 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was West Odessa, Odessa, Seminole.

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 one, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 33 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-102.0437° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.4026° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.357 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	33 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	2024-10-18 18:24:20	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-10-18 18:31:33	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	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	28	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.291	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.51 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	70	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	us6000nzla	Id of event.
Event Code	6000nzla	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000nzla,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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