Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Hermleigh in Texas

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Hermleigh in Texas on Friday. The temblor was detected at 01:08:08 / 1:08 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -100.662 West, latitude 32.764 North, depth = 7.6904 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/11/24 / 2024-11-22 01:08:08 / November 22, 2024 @ 1:08 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 7.6904 km (5 miles). Id of earthquake: tx2024wxsg. Event ids that are associated: us6000p6wr, tx2024wxsg.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sweetwater, Snyder. Earthquake epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from Snyder (c. 11 200 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Sweetwater (c. 10 900 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 16 km NNE of Hermleigh, Texas. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-100.662° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.764° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.6904 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16 km NNE of Hermleigh, Texas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-11-22 01:08:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-11-22 01:20:17	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	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	17	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	0.1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	79	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	tx2024wxsg	Id of event.
Event Code	2024wxsg	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000p6wr,tx2024wxsg,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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