Minor earthquake: M3.6 quake has struck near Los Ybanez in Texas

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) strikes 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Los Ybanez in Texas on Friday. Global time and date of event 02/05/25 / 2025-05-02 08:58:50 / May 2, 2025 @ 8:58 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 08:58:50 / 8:58 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 5.8105 km (4 miles). Exact location, longitude -102.127° West, latitude 32.437° North, depth = 5.8105 km. Id of earthquake: tx2025intt. Event ids that are associated: us7000pwjh, tx2025intt.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 49 km (31 miles) from Midland (c. 111 100 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Odessa (c. 99 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Big Spring (c. 27 300 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from West Odessa (c. 22 700 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Andrews (c. 11 100 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Brownfield (c. 9 700 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Brownfield, West Odessa, Odessa (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 36 km SSW of Los Ybanez, Texas. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-102.127° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.437° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.8105 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	36 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	2025-05-02 08:58:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-02 09:26:30	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	2.7	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.322	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	200	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	35	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	59	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	tx2025intt	Id of event.
Event Code	2025intt	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pwjh,tx2025intt,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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