Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Balmorhea in Texas

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Balmorhea in Texas. The temblor was detected at 15:21:03 / 3:21 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -103.6275 West, latitude 31.0151 North, depth = 5 km. Global time and date of event 09/12/25 / 2025-12-09 15:21:03 / December 9, 2025 @ 3:21 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000rtmp. Unique identifier: us6000rtmp. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.

The epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Fort Stockton (c. 8 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Alpine (c. 5 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alpine, Fort Stockton, Pecos (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 11 km ENE of Balmorhea, Texas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-103.6275° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.0151° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11 km ENE of Balmorhea, Texas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-12-09 15:21:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-09 15:32:32	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	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	27	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.15	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.36 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	60	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	us6000rtmp	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rtmp	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rtmp,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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