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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag has occurred near Toyah in Texas


Earthquake location 31.6258S, -104.0243WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) strikes 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Toyah in Texas on Monday. Event id: us7000nz7b. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nz7b. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.689 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 7.689 km, -104.0243° West, 31.6258° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/12/24 / 2024-12-16 06:48:17 / December 16, 2024 @ 6:48 am. The temblor was detected at 06:48:17 / 6:48 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 55 km (34 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pecos (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 40 km NNW of Toyah, Texas.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.0243° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.6258° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.689 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40 km NNW of Toyah, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-12-16 06:48:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-16 06:56:49 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 188 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 34 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.079 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 82 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 us7000nz7b Id of event.
Event Code 7000nz7b An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nz7b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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