Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Falls City in Texas

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Falls City in Texas on Sunday. Exact location of event, longitude -97.829 West, latitude 29.074 North, depth = 6.9835 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/12/25 / 2025-12-14 10:12:26 / December 14, 2025 @ 10:12 am. The temblor was reported at 10:12:26 / 10:12 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.9835 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: tx2025ynthef. Event ids that are associated: us6000rust, tx2025ynthef.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Alamo Heights, New Braunfels, Beeville. The epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from San Antonio (c. 1 327 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from New Braunfels (c. 57 700 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Schertz (c. 31 500 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Seguin (c. 25 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Universal City (c. 18 500 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 0 and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 20 km ENE of Falls City, Texas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.829° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	29.074° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.9835 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	20 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 10:12:26	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-14 16:05:46	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	9	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	83	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	tx2025ynthef	Id of event.
Event Code	2025ynthef	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rust,tx2025ynthef,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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