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

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Falls City in Texas on Wednesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.0557 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -97.95° West, latitude 28.966° North, depth = 7.0557 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pbjb, tx2025cmxe. Id of event: tx2025cmxe. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/02/25 / 2025-02-05 12:23:57 / February 5, 2025 @ 12:23 pm UTC/GMT. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:23:57 / 12:23 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Selma, Gonzales, Live Oak (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 73 km (46 miles) from San Antonio (c. 1 327 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Schertz (c. 31 500 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Seguin (c. 25 200 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Universal City (c. 18 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Converse (c. 18 200 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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 eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 6 km ESE of Falls City, Texas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.95° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	28.966° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.0557 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6 km ESE 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	2025-02-05 12:23:57	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-05 13:13:09	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	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	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	21	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	0.4 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	57	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	tx2025cmxe	Id of event.
Event Code	2025cmxe	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pbjb,tx2025cmxe,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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