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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 35 km WSW of Mentone, Texas


Earthquake location 31.6063S, -103.9588WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Mentone in Texas. Exact time and date of earthquake 19/11/24 / 2024-11-19 02:46:37 / November 19, 2024 @ 2:46 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000nsjs. Unique identifier: us7000nsjs. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.153 km (3 miles). The temblor was detected at 02:46:37 / 2:46 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -103.9588 West, latitude 31.6063 North, depth = 5.153 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 49 km (30 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pecos (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and four 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. Every 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 35 km WSW of Mentone, Texas.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -103.9588° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.6063° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.153 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35 km WSW of Mentone, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-11-19 02:46:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-19 02:57:02 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 us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 43 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.041 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 53 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 us7000nsjs Id of event.
Event Code 7000nsjs An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nsjs, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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