Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag strikes near Dilley in Texas

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Dilley in Texas. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/11/25 / 2025-11-15 03:08:31 / November 15, 2025 @ 3:08 am. The temblor was reported at 03:08:31 / 3:08 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.6072 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -98.935 West, latitude 28.679 North, depth = 6.6072 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rnef, tx2025wlzejk. Id of event: tx2025wlzejk.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hondo, Pleasanton, Pearsall (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 28 km (18 miles) from Pearsall (c. 9 100 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Pleasanton (c. 8 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Hondo (c. 8 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 23 km E of Dilley, Texas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.935° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	28.679° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.6072 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	23 km E of Dilley, Texas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-11-15 03:08:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-11-15 04:08:58	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	178	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	,us,tx,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	16	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2	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	84	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	tx2025wlzejk	Id of event.
Event Code	2025wlzejk	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rnef,tx2025wlzejk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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