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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag has occurred near Pecos in Texas


Earthquake location 31.0507S, -103.3132WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Pecos in Texas. Event id: us1000hvsq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hvsq. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/11/18 / 2018-11-23 14:43:08 / November 23, 2018 @ 2:43 pm. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:43:08 / 8:43 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -103.3132 West, latitude 31.0507 North, depth = 5 km.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Monahans, Fort Stockton, Pecos (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Fort Stockton (c. 8 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Monahans (c. 7 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 two and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 44 km SSE of Pecos, Texas.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -103.3132° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.0507° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44km 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 2018-11-23 14:43:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-23 15:00:46 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 178 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 0.13 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 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 ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000hvsq Id of event.
Event Code 1000hvsq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hvsq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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