Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Stanton in Texas

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Stanton in Texas on Sunday. Exact location of event, longitude -101.841 West, latitude 32.315 North, depth = 6.3721 km. Unique identifier: tx2024vqie. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000npra, tx2024vqie. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/11/24 / 2024-11-03 18:31:22 / November 3, 2024 @ 6:31 pm. The temblor was reported at 18:31:22 / 6:31 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.3721 km (4 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 42 km (26 miles) from Midland (c. 111 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Odessa (c. 99 900 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Big Spring (c. 27 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Andrews (c. 11 100 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Lamesa (c. 9 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Odessa, Andrews, Lamesa (min 5000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 21 km NNW of Stanton, Texas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-101.841° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.315° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.3721 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	21 km NNW of Stanton, Texas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-11-03 18:31:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-11-03 18:56:39	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	138	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	31	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	57	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	tx2024vqie	Id of event.
Event Code	2024vqie	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000npra,tx2024vqie,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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