Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Monahans in Texas

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Monahans in Texas on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -103.0897 West, latitude 31.3391 North, depth = 5 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005cut. Id of event: us70005cut. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/09/19 / 2019-09-06 16:10:48 / September 6, 2019 @ 4:10 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 10:10:48 / 10:10 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kermit, Fort Stockton, Pecos (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 39 km (24 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Fort Stockton (c. 8 300 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Monahans (c. 7 000 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Kermit (c. 5 700 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 33 km SSW of Monahans, Texas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-103.0897° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.3391° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	33km SSW of Monahans, Texas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-09-06 16:10:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-09-06 16:38:21	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	0.127	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.69 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	45	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	us70005cut	Id of event.
Event Code	70005cut	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70005cut,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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