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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Pottsboro in Texas


Earthquake location 33.751S, -96.6897WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Pottsboro in Texas on Monday. Exact location, longitude -96.6897° West, latitude 33.751° North, depth = 5 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/06/19 / 2019-06-24 20:55:52 / June 24, 2019 @ 8:55 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us600045f8. Id of event: us600045f8. The temblor was reported at 14:55:52 / 2:55 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lake Dallas, The Colony, Corinth (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 62 km (38 miles) from McKinney (c. 131 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Frisco (c. 117 000 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Denton (c. 113 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Allen (c. 84 200 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Sherman (c. 38 500 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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 2 km WSW of Pottsboro, 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 -96.6897° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.751° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km WSW of Pottsboro, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-06-24 20:55:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-25 17:14:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5 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 123 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 0.63 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 111 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 us600045f8 Id of event.
Event Code 600045f8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600045f8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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