A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Irving in Texas. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The temblor was reported at 18:27:25 / 6:27 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/12/15 / 2015-12-07 00:27:25 / December 7, 2015 @ 12:27 am. Unique identifier: us100044is. Ids that are associated to the event: us100044is. Exact location of event, longitude -96.9551 West, latitude 32.8596 North, depth = 5 km.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Decatur, Cleburne, Kaufman. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 16 km (10 miles) from Dallas (c. 1 197 800 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Fort Worth (c. 741 200 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Arlington (c. 365 400 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Plano (c. 259 800 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Garland (c. 226 900 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 0 and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 5 km N of Irving, Texas.
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