Minor earthquake 3.8 mag, 46 km W of Mentone, Texas

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Mentone in Texas. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -104.093 West, latitude 31.679 North, depth = 5.4205 km. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:45:06 / 4:45 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 04/12/24 / 2024-12-04 04:45:06 / December 4, 2024 @ 4:45 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.4205 km (3 miles). Event id: tx2024xtxo. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nvsz, tx2024xtxo.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Carlsbad, Pecos (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 26 100 pop), 64 km (39 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and twelve 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. 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: 46 km W of Mentone, Texas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-104.093° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.679° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.4205 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	46 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 04:45:06	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-04 05:06:43	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	2.2	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	223	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	31	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0	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	45	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	tx2024xtxo	Id of event.
Event Code	2024xtxo	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nvsz,tx2024xtxo,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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