Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Huxley in Texas

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Huxley in Texas. Event id: tx2025qlmqeq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000r2us, tx2025qlmqeq. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.5439 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 21/08/25 / 2025-08-21 21:14:06 / August 21, 2025 @ 9:14 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 21:14:06 / 9:14 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -93.98° West, 31.768° North, depth 7.5439 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nacogdoches, Carthage, Mansfield. The epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Nacogdoches (c. 33 000 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Carthage (c. 6 800 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Center (c. 5 200 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Mansfield (c. 5 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 9 km W of Huxley, Texas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-93.98° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.768° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.5439 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9 km W of Huxley, Texas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-08-21 21:14:06	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-08-21 21:28:51	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	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	139	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	26	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	1.1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	113	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	tx2025qlmqeq	Id of event.
Event Code	2025qlmqeq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000r2us,tx2025qlmqeq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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