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Minor earthquake 3.2 mag, 32 km SSE of Pecos, Texas


Earthquake location 31.1644S, -103.3304WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Pecos in Texas. Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -103.3304° West, 31.1644° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000aveu. Unique identifier: us1000aveu. The temblor was detected at 20:53:14 / 8:53 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/10/17 / 2017-10-22 02:53:14 / October 22, 2017 @ 2:53 am.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kermit, Monahans, Fort Stockton. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 33 km (20 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Fort Stockton (c. 8 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Monahans (c. 7 000 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Kermit (c. 5 700 pop).

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 ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 32 km SSE of Pecos, Texas.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -103.3304° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.1644° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32km SSE 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 2017-10-22 02:53:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-22 03:01:23 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 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 0.503 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.46 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 us1000aveu Id of event.
Event Code 1000aveu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000aveu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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