Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Balmorhea in Texas

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Balmorhea in Texas. Unique identifier: tx2025yeyubc. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000rtmp, tx2025yeyubc. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -103.613 West, latitude 31.002 North, depth = 3.1262 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 3.1262 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/12/25 / 2025-12-09 15:21:03 / December 9, 2025 @ 3:21 pm. The temblor was detected at 15:21:03 / 3:21 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Alpine, Fort Stockton, Pecos (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 48 km (30 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Fort Stockton (c. 8 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Alpine (c. 5 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-103.613° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.002° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.1262 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12 km E 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 15:39:11	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	129	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	14	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	0.2 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	85	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	tx2025yeyubc	Id of event.
Event Code	2025yeyubc	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rtmp,tx2025yeyubc,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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