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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag has occurred near Falls City in Texas

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was reported 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Falls City in Texas on Friday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 31/01/25 / 2025-01-31 03:59:08 / January 31, 2025 @ 3:59 am. Event id: tx2025cdcz. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: tx2025cdcz. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.837 West, latitude 29.074 North, depth = 2.6611 km. The temblor was detected at 03:59:08 / 3:59 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 2.6611 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lackland Air Force Base, Alamo Heights, Beeville. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from San Antonio (c. 1 327 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from New Braunfels (c. 57 700 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Schertz (c. 31 500 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Seguin (c. 25 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Universal City (c. 18 500 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Converse (c. 18 200 pop).

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 two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eighteen 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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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. 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: 20 km ENE of Falls City, Texas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.837° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	29.074° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.6611 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	2025-01-31 03:59:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-31 06:08:06	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	4	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	200	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	13	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	0.3 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	101	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	tx2025cdcz	Id of event.
Event Code	2025cdcz	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,tx2025cdcz,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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