Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Mentone in Texas

A light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Mentone in Texas on Wednesday. Exact location of event, depth 10.682 km, -104.1114° West, 31.6723° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.682 km (7 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us7000nvsz. Event ids that are associated: us7000nvsz. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/12/24 / 2024-12-04 04:45:05 / December 4, 2024 @ 4:45 am. The temblor was detected at 04:45:05 / 4:45 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Carlsbad, Pecos (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 26 100 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 48 km W of Mentone, Texas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-104.1114° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.6723° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.682 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	48 km W 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	2024-12-04 04:45:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-04 05:02:04	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.463	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	246	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	32	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.154	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.42 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	102	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000nvsz	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nvsz	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nvsz,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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