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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 41 km W of Mentone, Texas


Earthquake location 31.6996S, -104.0333WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Mentone in Texas on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, -104.0333° West, 31.6996° North, depth 5 km. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:22:07 / 7:22 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us70008hmq. Event ids that are associated: us70008hmq. Exact time and date of earthquake 28/03/20 / 2020-03-28 01:22:07 / March 28, 2020 @ 1:22 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 60 km (37 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pecos.

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 two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 41 km W of Mentone, Texas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.0333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.6996° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km 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 2020-03-28 01:22:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-28 01:32:55 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 0.215 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.36 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 50 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 us70008hmq Id of event.
Event Code 70008hmq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008hmq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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