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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Los Ybanez in Texas

Posted by admin on April 29, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 32.429S, -102.13WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Los Ybanez in Texas on Tuesday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: tx2025iitz. Id of event: tx2025iitz. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/04/25 / 2025-04-29 15:27:01 / April 29, 2025 @ 3:27 pm. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:27:01 / 3:27 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -102.13 West, latitude 32.429 North, depth = 6.2744 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6.2744 km (4 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 48 km (30 miles) from Midland (c. 111 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Odessa (c. 99 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Big Spring (c. 27 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from West Odessa (c. 22 700 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Andrews (c. 11 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was West Odessa, Odessa, Big Spring. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 37 km SSW of Los Ybanez, Texas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -102.13° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.429° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.2744 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37 km SSW of Los Ybanez, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-04-29 15:27:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-04-29 15:47:26 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 tx The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,tx, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 32 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 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 tx2025iitz Id of event.
Event Code 2025iitz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,tx2025iitz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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