Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Westbrook in Texas

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Westbrook in Texas. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/10/25 / 2025-10-12 23:00:07 / October 12, 2025 @ 11:00 pm UTC/GMT. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:00:07 / 11:00 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -101.0746° West, 32.3102° North. Event id: us6000rgsd. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rgsd. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sweetwater, Snyder, Big Spring (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Big Spring (c. 27 300 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Snyder (c. 11 200 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Sweetwater (c. 10 900 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: 7 km SW of Westbrook, Texas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-101.0746° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.3102° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7 km SW 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	2025-10-12 23:00:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-12 23:22:32	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	121	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	34	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.162	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.37 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	42	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb_lg	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000rgsd	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rgsd	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rgsd,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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