Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Marathon in Texas

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Marathon in Texas on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, -103.264° West, 30.038° North, depth 0.9521 km. Event id: tx2025xzcqfo. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rswk, tx2025xzcqfo. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.9521 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 10:47:23 / 10:47 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/12/25 / 2025-12-06 10:47:23 / December 6, 2025 @ 10:47 am.

Earthquake epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Alpine (c. 5 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alpine.

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 18 km S of Marathon, Texas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-103.264° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	30.038° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.9521 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18 km S of Marathon, Texas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-12-06 10:47:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-06 11:27:13	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	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	26	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.5	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.2 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	68	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	tx2025xzcqfo	Id of event.
Event Code	2025xzcqfo	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rswk,tx2025xzcqfo,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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