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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag was detected near Stanton in Texas


Earthquake location 32.2533S, -101.8933WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Stanton in Texas on Friday. Event id: us7000nwev. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nwev. Exact location of event, longitude -101.8933 West, latitude 32.2533 North, depth = 5 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/12/24 / 2024-12-06 02:24:12 / December 6, 2024 @ 2:24 am. The temblor was reported at 02:24:12 / 2:24 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was West Odessa, Odessa, Andrews (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 33 km (21 miles) from Midland (c. 111 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Odessa (c. 99 900 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Big Spring (c. 27 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from West Odessa (c. 22 700 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Andrews (c. 11 100 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-six 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. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 16 km NW of Stanton, Texas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -101.8933° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.2533° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16 km NW of Stanton, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-12-06 02:24:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-06 02:32:51 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 148 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 35 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.263 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 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 us7000nwev Id of event.
Event Code 7000nwev An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nwev, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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