Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Hermleigh in Texas

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Hermleigh in Texas. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:48:00 / 11:48 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -100.678 West, latitude 32.752 North, depth = 6.9824 km. Unique identifier: tx2024vccn. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000nnem, tx2024vccn. Global time and date of event 26/10/24 / 2024-10-26 23:48:00 / October 26, 2024 @ 11:48 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.9824 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sweetwater, Snyder (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 23 km (14 miles) from Snyder (c. 11 200 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Sweetwater (c. 10 900 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 15 km NNE of Hermleigh, Texas. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-100.678° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.752° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.9824 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15 km NNE of Hermleigh, Texas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-10-26 23:48:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-10-27 00:14:50	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	129	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	26	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1	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	45	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	tx2024vccn	Id of event.
Event Code	2024vccn	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nnem,tx2024vccn,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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