Minor earthquake: M3.3 quake has struck near Hermleigh in Texas

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Hermleigh in Texas. Id of earthquake: us7000qe0v. Event ids that are associated: us7000qe0v. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1.138 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/07/25 / 2025-07-20 11:20:23 / July 20, 2025 @ 11:20 am. Exact location, longitude -100.6596° West, latitude 32.7541° North, depth = 1.138 km. The temblor was reported at 11:20:23 / 11:20 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from Snyder (c. 11 200 pop), 39 km (25 miles) from Sweetwater (c. 10 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sweetwater, Snyder (min 5000 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 16 km NE of Hermleigh, Texas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-100.6596° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.7541° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.138 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16 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 11:20:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-07-20 11:29:10	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	168	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	29	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.645	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.47 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	37	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	us7000qe0v	Id of event.
Event Code	7000qe0v	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000qe0v,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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