Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Small World Earthquakes

Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Pleasanton in Texas

Posted by admin on November 17, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 28.9972S, -98.3365WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Pleasanton in Texas. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 11:48:11 / 11:48 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000ns9z. Event ids that are associated: tx2024wpjx, us7000ns9z. Exact location of event, longitude -98.3365 West, latitude 28.9972 North, depth = 5 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/11/24 / 2024-11-17 11:48:11 / November 17, 2024 @ 11:48 am.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pearsall, Helotes, Seguin (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from San Antonio (c. 1 327 400 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Schertz (c. 31 500 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Seguin (c. 25 200 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Universal City (c. 18 500 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Converse (c. 18 200 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

Questions or comments?

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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 14 km ENE of Pleasanton, Texas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Copyright © 2024 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.3365° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.9972° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14 km ENE 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 2024-11-17 11:48:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-17 21:20:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 121 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,tx,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.136 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 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 mb_lg The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000ns9z Id of event.
Event Code 7000ns9z An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,tx2024wpjx,us7000ns9z, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information

Information and facts about all earthquakes today. Earthquake news and analysis on current events, Plate Tectonics, Seismometers, quake prediction, environment, Tsunamis, Seismologists, Prediction, live now, videos, information, pictures and much more. Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today.

© 2024 Earthquakes today - Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today