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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Midland in Texas

Posted by admin on November 9, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 31.939S, -102.001WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Midland in Texas. Exact location of event, depth 4.1559 km, -102.001° West, 31.939° North. Global time and date of event 09/11/25 / 2025-11-09 07:11:21 / November 9, 2025 @ 7:11 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.1559 km (3 miles). The temblor was reported at 07:11:21 / 7:11 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: tx2025wbgvim. Ids that are associated to the event: tx2025wbgvim.

Earthquake epicenter was 10 km (6 miles) from Midland (c. 111 100 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Odessa (c. 99 900 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Big Spring (c. 27 300 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from West Odessa (c. 22 700 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Andrews (c. 11 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Andrews, Big Spring, West Odessa. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 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 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: 9 km SE of Midland, Texas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -102.001° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.939° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.1559 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9 km SE of Midland, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-11-09 07:11:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-09 07:17:19 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 2 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 121 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 82 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 34 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 tx2025wbgvim Id of event.
Event Code 2025wbgvim An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,tx2025wbgvim, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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