Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag has occurred near Mentone in Texas

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Mentone in Texas. The epicenter was at a depth of 6.4075 km (4 miles). The temblor was detected at 08:47:07 / 8:47 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qvl2, tx2025osmnhe. Id of event: tx2025osmnhe. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/07/25 / 2025-07-28 08:47:07 / July 28, 2025 @ 8:47 am. Exact location of event, depth 6.4075 km, -104.171° West, 31.702° North.

Epicenter of the event was 80 km (50 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 26 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Carlsbad, Pecos. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 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 three, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 54 km W of Mentone, Texas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-104.171° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.702° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.4075 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	54 km W of Mentone, Texas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-07-28 08:47:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-07-28 09:04:27	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	2.7	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	234	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	32	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	0.1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	59	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	tx2025osmnhe	Id of event.
Event Code	2025osmnhe	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000qvl2,tx2025osmnhe,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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