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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag has occurred near Garden City in Texas

Posted by admin on April 3, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 31.7217S, -101.7255WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Garden City in Texas. Global time and date of event 03/04/25 / 2025-04-03 12:58:42 / April 3, 2025 @ 12:58 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us6000q3ne. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000q3ne. Exact location, longitude -101.7255° West, latitude 31.7217° North, depth = 4.484 km. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:58:42 / 12:58 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 4.484 km (3 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 45 km (28 miles) from Midland (c. 111 100 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Odessa (c. 99 900 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Big Spring (c. 27 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from West Odessa (c. 22 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was West Odessa, Big Spring, Odessa.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 28 km SW of Garden City, Texas. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -101.7255° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.7217° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.484 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28 km SW of Garden City, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-04-03 12:58:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-04-03 13:14:03 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 36 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 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 57 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 us6000q3ne Id of event.
Event Code 6000q3ne An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000q3ne, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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