Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Van Horn in Texas

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 65 km NNE of Van Horn, Texas (40 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -104.577 West, latitude 31.59 North, depth = 3.865 km. The temblor was reported at 03:08:41 / 3:08 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000nrwp, tx2024wlbx. Unique identifier: tx2024wlbx. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/11/24 / 2024-11-15 03:08:41 / November 15, 2024 @ 3:08 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 3.865 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days ninety-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 65 km NNE of Van Horn, Texas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-104.577° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.59° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.865 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	65 km NNE of Van Horn, Texas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-11-15 03:08:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-11-15 03:26:20	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	automatic	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	121	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	24	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	97	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	tx2024wlbx	Id of event.
Event Code	2024wlbx	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nrwp,tx2024wlbx,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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