Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Toyah in Texas

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Toyah in Texas on Thursday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/08/24 / 2024-08-08 04:09:11 / August 8, 2024 @ 4:09 am. Exact location of earthquake, -103.995° West, 31.612° North, depth 8.6249 km. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:09:11 / 4:09 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 8.6249 km (5 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000nisr, tx2024pmgx. Unique identifier: tx2024pmgx.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pecos. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 38 km NNW of Toyah, Texas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-103.995° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.612° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.6249 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	38 km NNW 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	2024-08-08 04:09:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-08 04:26:21	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	129	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	tx	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,tx,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	27	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	38	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	tx2024pmgx	Id of event.
Event Code	2024pmgx	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000nisr,tx2024pmgx,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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