Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Falls City in Texas

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Falls City in Texas on Sunday. The temblor was detected at 10:12:28 / 10:12 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -97.8601° West, 29.0672° North, depth 4.692 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/12/25 / 2025-12-14 10:12:28 / December 14, 2025 @ 10:12 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.692 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000rust. Unique identifier: us6000rust.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 73 km (45 miles) from San Antonio (c. 1 327 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from New Braunfels (c. 57 700 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Schertz (c. 31 500 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Seguin (c. 25 200 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Universal City (c. 18 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was New Braunfels, Beeville, Alamo Heights (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 17 km ENE of Falls City, Texas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.8601° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	29.0672° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.692 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17 km ENE of Falls City, Texas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-12-14 10:12:28	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-14 10:23:17	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	13	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.155	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.81 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	105	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb_lg	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000rust	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rust	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rust,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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