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Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Van Horn in Texas


Earthquake location 31.6636S, -104.5034WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 75 km NNE of Van Horn, Texas (47 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 09/07/18 / 2018-07-09 02:53:46 / July 9, 2018 @ 2:53 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 20:53:46 / 8:53 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -104.5034 West, latitude 31.6636 North, depth = 5 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000g01a. Unique identifier: us2000g01a.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 75 km NNE of Van Horn, Texas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.5034° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.6636° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75km NNE of Van Horn, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-09 02:53:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-09 03:05:40 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 138 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 0.966 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 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 us2000g01a Id of event.
Event Code 2000g01a An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000g01a, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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