Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag has occurred near Stanton in Texas

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) strikes 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Stanton in Texas on Thursday. Exact location of event, longitude -101.796 West, latitude 32.33 North, depth = 6.5674 km. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:14:10 / 12:14 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: tx2025xhucqr. Ids that are associated to the event: tx2025xhucqr, us7000re1g. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.5674 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/11/25 / 2025-11-27 00:14:10 / November 27, 2025 @ 12:14 am.

Epicenter of the event was 46 km (28 miles) from Midland (c. 111 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Odessa (c. 99 900 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Big Spring (c. 27 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Andrews (c. 11 100 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Lamesa (c. 9 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Odessa, Andrews, Lamesa (min 5000 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 three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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 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: 22 km N of Stanton, Texas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-101.796° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.33° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.5674 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	22 km N of Stanton, Texas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-11-27 00:14:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-11-27 00:34:54	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.3	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,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	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	56	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	tx2025xhucqr	Id of event.
Event Code	2025xhucqr	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,tx2025xhucqr,us7000re1g,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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