Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Westbrook in Texas

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Westbrook in Texas. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: tx2025kjiq. Id of event: tx2025kjiq. The epicenter was at a depth of 1.8331 km (1 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/05/25 / 2025-05-28 09:45:19 / May 28, 2025 @ 9:45 am. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:45:19 / 9:45 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -101.058 West, latitude 32.144 North, depth = 1.8331 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sweetwater, Snyder, Big Spring (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 41 km (26 miles) from Big Spring (c. 27 300 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Snyder (c. 11 200 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Sweetwater (c. 10 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days seventy-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 23 km S of Westbrook, Texas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-101.058° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.144° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.8331 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	23 km S of Westbrook, Texas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-05-28 09:45:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-28 09:53:55	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	automatic	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	75	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.4 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	89	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	tx2025kjiq	Id of event.
Event Code	2025kjiq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,tx2025kjiq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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