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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Welch in Texas

Posted by admin on December 21, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 32.934S, -102.122WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 0 kilometers (0 miles) from Welch in Texas. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: tx2024yzsx. Id of event: tx2024yzsx. The temblor was detected at 14:44:08 / 2:44 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/12/24 / 2024-12-21 14:44:08 / December 21, 2024 @ 2:44 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 9.8245 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude -102.122° West, latitude 32.934° North, depth = 9.8245 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Levelland, Lubbock, Post. Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Lubbock (c. 229 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Levelland (c. 13 500 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Brownfield (c. 9 700 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Lamesa (c. 9 400 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Seminole (c. 6 400 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 0 km NNE of Welch, Texas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -102.122° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.934° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.8245 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 0 km NNE of Welch, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-12-21 14:44:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-21 14:53:39 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 automatic 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 ,tx, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 157 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 tx2024yzsx Id of event.
Event Code 2024yzsx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,tx2024yzsx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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