Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Lindsay in Texas

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Lindsay in Texas on Sunday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.4072 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:07:06 / 5:07 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -103.365 West, latitude 31.265 North, depth = 7.4072 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/01/25 / 2025-01-26 17:07:06 / January 26, 2025 @ 5:07 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: tx2025buzn. Unique identifier: tx2025buzn.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 21 km (13 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Fort Stockton (c. 8 300 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Monahans (c. 7 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Kermit (c. 5 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kermit, Fort Stockton, Monahans (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days one hundred and 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.

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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. 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 SE of Lindsay, Texas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-103.365° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.265° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.4072 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	20 km SE of Lindsay, Texas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-01-26 17:07:06	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-26 17:30:21	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	138	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	,tx,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	19	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1	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	75	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	tx2025buzn	Id of event.
Event Code	2025buzn	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,tx2025buzn,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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