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Minor earthquake: M3.2 quake has struck near Monahans in Texas


Earthquake location 31.3519S, -103.0585WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Monahans in Texas. Id of earthquake: us10003x5f. Event ids that are associated: us10003x5f. Exact location of earthquake, -103.0585° West, 31.3519° North, depth 5 km. The temblor was detected at 15:43:03 / 3:43 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 10/11/15 / 2015-11-10 21:43:03 / November 10, 2015 @ 9:43 pm UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was West Odessa, Kermit, Fort Stockton. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from West Odessa (c. 22 700 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Fort Stockton (c. 8 300 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Monahans (c. 7 000 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Kermit (c. 5 700 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 31 km SSW of Monahans, Texas.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -103.0585° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.3519° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 31km SSW of Monahans, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-10 21:43:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-10 22:01:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 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 158 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 2.014 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 88 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 us10003x5f Id of event.
Event Code 10003x5f An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003x5f, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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