Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Mentone in Texas

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Mentone in Texas. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/12/25 / 2025-12-11 04:35:35 / December 11, 2025 @ 4:35 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 11.636 km (7 miles). The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:35:35 / 4:35 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -103.9928 West, latitude 31.62 North, depth = 11.636 km. Unique identifier: us6000ru2k. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000ru2k.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pecos (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 52 km (32 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. 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 fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 38 km WSW of Mentone, Texas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-103.9928° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.62° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.636 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	38 km WSW of Mentone, Texas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-12-11 04:35:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-11 04:48:52	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	38	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.055	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.61 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	66	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	us6000ru2k	Id of event.
Event Code	6000ru2k	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000ru2k,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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