Minor earthquake 3 mag, 27 km N of Sterling City, Texas

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Sterling City in Texas. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000py1r. Unique identifier: us7000py1r. Exact location of event, depth 6.743 km, -101.0323° West, 32.0843° North. The temblor was reported at 19:34:53 / 7:34 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/05/25 / 2025-05-08 19:34:53 / May 8, 2025 @ 7:34 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.743 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the event was 46 km (29 miles) from Big Spring (c. 27 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Snyder (c. 11 200 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Sweetwater (c. 10 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sweetwater, Snyder, Big Spring (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days seventy-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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: 27 km N of Sterling City, Texas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-101.0323° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.0843° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.743 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	27 km N of Sterling 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	2025-05-08 19:34:53	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-08 19:44:16	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	138	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	0.187	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.66 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	45	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb_lg	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000py1r	Id of event.
Event Code	7000py1r	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000py1r,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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