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Minor earthquake: M3.5 quake has struck near Poth in Texas

Posted by admin on January 6, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 28.8464S, -98.1843WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Poth in Texas. Exact location, longitude -98.1843° West, latitude 28.8464° North, depth = 5 km. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:37:17 / 9:37 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us1000c1fk. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000c1fk. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/01/18 / 2018-01-06 15:37:17 / January 6, 2018 @ 3:37 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Leon Valley, Seguin, Selma. Epicenter of the event was 71 km (44 miles) from San Antonio (c. 1 327 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Schertz (c. 31 500 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Seguin (c. 25 200 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Universal City (c. 18 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Converse (c. 18 200 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Cibolo (c. 15 300 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 26 km SSW of Poth, Texas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.1843° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.8464° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km SSW of Poth, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-06 15:37:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-06 15:46:38 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 188 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 0.329 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 us1000c1fk Id of event.
Event Code 1000c1fk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000c1fk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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