Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag strikes near Nixon in Texas

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) strikes 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Nixon in Texas on Saturday. Id of earthquake: tx2025sojbdj. Event ids that are associated: tx2025sojbdj. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.8034 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -97.812 West, latitude 29.073 North, depth = 5.8034 km. The temblor was picked up at 18:30:00 / 6:30 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/09/25 / 2025-09-20 18:30:00 / September 20, 2025 @ 6:30 pm.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alamo Heights, San Antonio, New Braunfels (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from San Antonio (c. 1 327 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from New Braunfels (c. 57 700 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Schertz (c. 31 500 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Seguin (c. 25 200 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Universal City (c. 18 500 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 22 km SSW of Nixon, Texas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.812° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	29.073° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.8034 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	22 km SSW of Nixon, Texas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-09-20 18:30:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-09-20 18:44:41	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	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	30	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0	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	79	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	tx2025sojbdj	Id of event.
Event Code	2025sojbdj	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,tx2025sojbdj,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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