Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near Mentone in Texas

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Mentone in Texas. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us7000puze. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000puze. The temblor was reported at 08:18:03 / 8:18 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -103.7632 West, latitude 31.767 North, depth = 5 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/04/25 / 2025-04-25 08:18:03 / April 25, 2025 @ 8:18 am UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the event was 46 km (29 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Kermit (c. 5 700 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kermit, Pecos.

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

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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. 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: 16 km WNW of Mentone, Texas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-103.7632° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.767° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16 km WNW 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	2025-04-25 08:18:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-04-25 08:22:19	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	148	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	30	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.192	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.2 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	39	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	us7000puze	Id of event.
Event Code	7000puze	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000puze,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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