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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Mentone in Texas


Earthquake location 31.7131S, -104.1148WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Mentone in Texas. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000cf3p. Id of event: us7000cf3p. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.11 km (1 miles). The temblor was reported at 23:08:21 / 11:08 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -104.1148 West, latitude 31.7131 North, depth = 1.11 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/11/20 / 2020-11-14 23:08:21 / November 14, 2020 @ 11:08 pm.

Epicenter of the event was 67 km (42 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pecos (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 48 km W of Mentone, Texas. This information 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 -104.1148° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.7131° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48 km 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 2020-11-14 23:08:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-14 23:24:05 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 121 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 0.232 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 48 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 us7000cf3p Id of event.
Event Code 7000cf3p An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000cf3p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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