Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag strikes near Pleasanton in Texas

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Pleasanton in Texas. The epicenter was at a depth of 13.208 km (8 miles). Global time and date of event 14/11/24 / 2024-11-14 18:03:33 / November 14, 2024 @ 6:03 pm UTC/GMT. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:03:33 / 6:03 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -98.277° West, latitude 28.955° North, depth = 13.208 km. Id of earthquake: tx2024wkjs. Event ids that are associated: us7000nrtm, tx2024wkjs.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Timberwood Park, New Braunfels, Beeville (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from San Antonio (c. 1 327 400 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from New Braunfels (c. 57 700 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Schertz (c. 31 500 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Seguin (c. 25 200 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Universal City (c. 18 500 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Converse (c. 18 200 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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: 19 km E of Pleasanton, Texas. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.277° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	28.955° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	13.208 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	19 km E of Pleasanton, Texas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-11-14 18:03:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-11-14 18:29:04	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	4	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.221	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	223	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	30	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	0.2 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	65	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	tx2024wkjs	Id of event.
Event Code	2024wkjs	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nrtm,tx2024wkjs,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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