Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Nixon in Texas

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Nixon in Texas on Friday. Event id: us6000phqz. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000phqz. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/01/25 / 2025-01-03 22:14:52 / January 3, 2025 @ 10:14 pm. The temblor was picked up at 22:14:52 / 10:14 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -97.8077° West, latitude 29.0806° North, depth = 5 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from San Antonio (c. 1 327 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from New Braunfels (c. 57 700 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Schertz (c. 31 500 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Seguin (c. 25 200 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Universal City (c. 18 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alamo Heights, San Antonio, Beeville.

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 21 km SSW of Nixon, Texas. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.8077° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	29.0806° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	21 km SSW of Nixon, Texas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-01-03 22:14:52	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-03 22:30:42	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	139	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	14	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.13	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.38 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	137	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	us6000phqz	Id of event.
Event Code	6000phqz	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000phqz,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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