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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Pecos in Texas


Earthquake location 30.9419S, -103.4929WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Pecos in Texas. Id of earthquake: us1000g3gs. Event ids that are associated: us1000g3gs. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -103.4929° West, 30.9419° North, depth 5 km. The temblor was reported at 08:52:43 / 8:52 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/08/18 / 2018-08-04 14:52:43 / August 4, 2018 @ 2:52 pm.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Alpine, Fort Stockton, Pecos (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Fort Stockton (c. 8 300 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Alpine (c. 5 900 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 thirteen 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. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 53 km S of Pecos, Texas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -103.4929° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.9419° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53km S 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 2018-08-04 14:52:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-24 21:08:07 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 0.146 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 71 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 us1000g3gs Id of event.
Event Code 1000g3gs An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000g3gs, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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