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Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Mentone in Texas


Earthquake location 31.7095S, -103.9958WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Mentone in Texas. Global time and date of event 26/03/20 / 2020-03-26 16:16:16 / March 26, 2020 @ 4:16 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -103.9958° West, latitude 31.7095° North, depth = 5 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:16:16 / 10:16 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us70008giv. Unique identifier: us70008giv.

Event epicenter was 57 km (36 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pecos.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.

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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. 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: 37 km W of Mentone, Texas.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -103.9958° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.7095° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37km W of Mentone, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-03-26 16:16:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-26 16:27:51 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 138 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 0.227 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 56 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 us70008giv Id of event.
Event Code 70008giv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008giv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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