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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag was detected near Lamesa in Texas

Posted by admin on May 2, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 32.4565S, -102.1576WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Lamesa in Texas. Exact location of event, longitude -102.1576 West, latitude 32.4565 North, depth = 5 km. The temblor was picked up at 08:58:51 / 8:58 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000pwjh. Unique identifier: us7000pwjh. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/05/25 / 2025-05-02 08:58:51 / May 2, 2025 @ 8:58 am.

Earthquake epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Midland (c. 111 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Odessa (c. 99 900 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Big Spring (c. 27 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from West Odessa (c. 22 700 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Andrews (c. 11 100 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Brownfield (c. 9 700 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Brownfield, West Odessa, Odessa (min 5000 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 five and in the last 365 days fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 36 km SSW of Lamesa, Texas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -102.1576° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.4565° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36 km SSW of Lamesa, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-05-02 08:58:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-02 09:10:16 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 222 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 31 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.326 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 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 mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000pwjh Id of event.
Event Code 7000pwjh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pwjh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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