Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag was detected near Westbrook in Texas

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Westbrook in Texas. The epicenter was at a depth of 7.5928 km (5 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -101.047 West, latitude 32.112 North, depth = 7.5928 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qubv, tx2025rnopod. Id of event: tx2025rnopod. The temblor was detected at 04:16:48 / 4:16 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 06/09/25 / 2025-09-06 04:16:48 / September 6, 2025 @ 4:16 am UTC/GMT.

The epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) from Big Spring (c. 27 300 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Snyder (c. 11 200 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Sweetwater (c. 10 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sweetwater, Snyder, Big Spring (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 27 km S of Westbrook, Texas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-101.047° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.112° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.5928 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	27 km S of Westbrook, Texas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-09-06 04:16:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-09-06 04:37:36	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	178	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	20	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	0.1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	64	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	tx2025rnopod	Id of event.
Event Code	2025rnopod	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000qubv,tx2025rnopod,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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