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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Falls City in Texas

Posted by admin on February 22, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 28.915S, -98.203WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Falls City in Texas. The temblor was reported at 06:18:27 / 6:18 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: tx2025drmq. Ids that are associated to the event: tx2025drmq. Exact location of event, depth 9.3994 km, -98.203° West, 28.915° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/02/25 / 2025-02-22 06:18:27 / February 22, 2025 @ 6:18 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.3994 km (6 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Seguin, Leon Valley, Selma. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from San Antonio (c. 1 327 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Schertz (c. 31 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Seguin (c. 25 200 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Universal City (c. 18 500 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Converse (c. 18 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every 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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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 19 km WSW of Falls City, Texas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.203° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.915° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.3994 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19 km WSW of Falls City, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-02-22 06:18:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-22 06:35:23 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.5 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 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1 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 78 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 tx2025drmq Id of event.
Event Code 2025drmq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,tx2025drmq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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