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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Snyder in Texas


Earthquake location 32.9133S, -100.891WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Snyder in Texas. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000314m. Unique identifier: us2000314m. Global time and date of event 29/07/15 / 2015-07-29 01:47:27 / July 29, 2015 @ 1:47 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:47:27 / 8:47 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -100.891° West, latitude 32.9133° North, depth = 5 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sweetwater, Post, Snyder. Earthquake epicenter was 22 km (14 miles) from Snyder (c. 11 200 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Sweetwater (c. 10 900 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Post (c. 5 400 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 21 km N of Snyder, Texas.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -100.891° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.9133° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km N of Snyder, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-29 01:47:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-29 01:57:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 121 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.09 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 56 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 us2000314m Id of event.
Event Code 2000314m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000314m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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