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Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Toyah in Texas


Earthquake location 31.595S, -104.2091WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Toyah in Texas. Event id: us7000am8b. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000am8b. The temblor was reported at 08:47:54 / 8:47 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/07/20 / 2020-07-12 08:47:54 / July 12, 2020 @ 8:47 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -104.2091° West, latitude 31.595° North, depth = 5 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pecos (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop).

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. 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 fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 50 km NW of Toyah, Texas. This information 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 -104.2091° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.595° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50 km NW of Toyah, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-07-12 08:47:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-12 09:00:11 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 0.618 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 126 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 us7000am8b Id of event.
Event Code 7000am8b An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000am8b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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