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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag has occurred near Ackerly in Texas


Earthquake location 32.411S, -102.061WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Ackerly in Texas. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000nzla, tx2024unbv. Id of event: tx2024unbv. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.2021 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -102.061 West, latitude 32.411 North, depth = 7.2021 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/10/24 / 2024-10-18 18:24:19 / October 18, 2024 @ 6:24 pm. The temblor was picked up at 18:24:19 / 6:24 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was West Odessa, Odessa, Seminole (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 46 km (29 miles) from Midland (c. 111 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Odessa (c. 99 900 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Big Spring (c. 27 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from West Odessa (c. 22 700 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Andrews (c. 11 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 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 three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 34 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -102.061° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.411° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.2021 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34 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 18:24:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-18 18:38:34 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 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 17 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 68 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 tx2024unbv Id of event.
Event Code 2024unbv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nzla,tx2024unbv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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