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Minor earthquake: M3.4 quake has struck near Pecos in Texas


Earthquake location 31.1545S, -103.2549WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Pecos in Texas. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000aevi. Id of event: us2000aevi. The temblor was reported at 00:27:39 / 12:27 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -103.2549° West, 31.1545° North, depth 2.71 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.71 km (2 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/09/17 / 2017-09-03 06:27:39 / September 3, 2017 @ 6:27 am.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kermit, Monahans, Fort Stockton. Earthquake epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Fort Stockton (c. 8 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Monahans (c. 7 000 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Kermit (c. 5 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 37 km SE of Pecos, Texas. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -103.2549° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.1545° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.71 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37km SE of Pecos, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-09-03 06:27:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-03 06:47:24 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 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 178 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 0.566 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 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 us2000aevi Id of event.
Event Code 2000aevi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000aevi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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