Minor earthquake 3 mag, 43 km WNW of Toyah, Texas

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Toyah in Texas. The temblor was picked up at 14:05:39 / 2:05 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 06/09/25 / 2025-09-06 14:05:39 / September 6, 2025 @ 2:05 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: tx2025roiczs. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: tx2025roiczs. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.4216 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -104.174 West, latitude 31.526 North, depth = 4.4216 km.

Epicenter of the event was 66 km (41 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pecos (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty 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. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 43 km WNW of Toyah, Texas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-104.174° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.526° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.4216 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	43 km WNW of Toyah, 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 14:05:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-09-06 14:08:26	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	automatic	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	138	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	,tx,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	22	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	0.3 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	148	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	tx2025roiczs	Id of event.
Event Code	2025roiczs	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,tx2025roiczs,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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