Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag strikes near Hermleigh in Texas

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Hermleigh in Texas. The 3.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:20:22 / 11:20 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000qe0v, tx2025odzuij. Unique identifier: tx2025odzuij. The epicenter was at a depth of 6.3232 km (4 miles). Global time and date of event 20/07/25 / 2025-07-20 11:20:22 / July 20, 2025 @ 11:20 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -100.664 West, latitude 32.74 North, depth = 6.3232 km.

Close 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 Post, Sweetwater, Snyder. The epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from Snyder (c. 11 200 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Sweetwater (c. 10 900 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Post (c. 5 400 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 14 km NE of Hermleigh, Texas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-100.664° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.74° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.3232 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14 km NE of Hermleigh, Texas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-07-20 11:20:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-07-20 11:47:33	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	3.8	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	211	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	21	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1	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	57	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	tx2025odzuij	Id of event.
Event Code	2025odzuij	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000qe0v,tx2025odzuij,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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