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Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 16 km N of Snyder, Texas


Earthquake location 32.8673S, -100.9173WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Snyder in Texas on Tuesday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 1.24 km (1 miles). Event id: us70003i1i. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70003i1i. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -100.9173 West, latitude 32.8673 North, depth = 1.24 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/05/19 / 2019-05-07 20:27:17 / May 7, 2019 @ 8:27 pm. The temblor was reported at 14:27:17 / 2:27 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sweetwater, Post, Snyder. The epicenter was 17 km (10 miles) from Snyder (c. 11 200 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Sweetwater (c. 10 900 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Post (c. 5 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 three 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. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 16 km N of Snyder, Texas.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -100.9173° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.8673° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km N of Snyder, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-07 20:27:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-07 20:43:08 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 129 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 0.029 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 36 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 us70003i1i Id of event.
Event Code 70003i1i An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003i1i, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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