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

Posted by admin on June 15, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 30.947S, -103.997WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Balmorhea in Texas on Saturday. The temblor was picked up at 23:47:18 / 11:47 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/06/25 / 2025-06-14 23:47:18 / June 14, 2025 @ 11:47 pm. Id of earthquake: tx2025lqwkhk. Event ids that are associated: tx2025lqwkhk. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -103.997 West, latitude 30.947 North, depth = 2.6789 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.6789 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 71 km (44 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Alpine (c. 5 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Alpine, Pecos (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days twenty-three, in the past 30 days fourty and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 24 km W of Balmorhea, Texas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -103.997° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.947° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.6789 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24 km W of Balmorhea, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-06-14 23:47:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-06-15 00:00:30 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 124 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 tx2025lqwkhk Id of event.
Event Code 2025lqwkhk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,tx2025lqwkhk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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