Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Garden City in Texas

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Garden City in Texas. The temblor was reported at 07:12:40 / 7:12 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 8.7158 km (5 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -101.465 West, latitude 31.953 North, depth = 8.7158 km. Global time and date of event 30/12/25 / 2025-12-30 07:12:40 / December 30, 2025 @ 7:12 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: tx2025zqwyhs. Event ids that are associated: us7000rlgv, tx2025zqwyhs.

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 Midland, Big Spring. Earthquake epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Midland (c. 111 100 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Big Spring (c. 27 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 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: 9 km N of Garden City, Texas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-101.465° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.953° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.7158 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9 km N of Garden 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	2025-12-30 07:12:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-30 07:26:44	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	37	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2	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	80	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	tx2025zqwyhs	Id of event.
Event Code	2025zqwyhs	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000rlgv,tx2025zqwyhs,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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