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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Pecos in Texas


Earthquake location 31.1538S, -103.2945WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Pecos in Texas. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000dc22. Unique identifier: us2000dc22. Exact location of earthquake, -103.2945° West, 31.1538° North, depth 2.74 km. The temblor was detected at 07:57:53 / 7:57 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 2.74 km (2 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/03/18 / 2018-03-04 13:57:53 / March 4, 2018 @ 1:57 pm.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Monahans, Fort Stockton, Pecos (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 35 km (22 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Fort Stockton (c. 8 300 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Monahans (c. 7 000 pop).

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 twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 35 km SSE of Pecos, Texas.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -103.2945° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.1538° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35km 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 2018-03-04 13:57:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-04 14:37:55 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 121 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 0.234 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 74 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 us2000dc22 Id of event.
Event Code 2000dc22 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000dc22, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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