Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Falls City in Texas

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Falls City in Texas. Exact location of event, depth 14.7972 km, -98.099° West, 28.972° North. Id of earthquake: tx2025umnrqy. Event ids that are associated: tx2025umnrqy, us6000rhzr. The temblor was detected at 02:33:39 / 2:33 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14.7972 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/10/25 / 2025-10-18 02:33:39 / October 18, 2025 @ 2:33 am.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Leon Valley, Beeville, Selma. Epicenter of the event was 63 km (39 miles) from San Antonio (c. 1 327 400 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Schertz (c. 31 500 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Seguin (c. 25 200 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Universal City (c. 18 500 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Converse (c. 18 200 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 8 km W of Falls City, Texas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.099° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	28.972° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	14.7972 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8 km W of Falls City, Texas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-10-18 02:33:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-18 02:39:44	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	4.1	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	130	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,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	6	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	0.4 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	183	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	tx2025umnrqy	Id of event.
Event Code	2025umnrqy	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,tx2025umnrqy,us6000rhzr,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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