Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Marathon in Texas

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Marathon in Texas. The epicenter was at a depth of 8.0225 km (5 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 13/02/25 / 2025-02-13 18:30:41 / February 13, 2025 @ 6:30 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: tx2025dbzi. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000pdh3, tx2025dbzi. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:30:41 / 6:30 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -103.338 West, latitude 30.037 North, depth = 8.0225 km.

Event epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Alpine (c. 5 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alpine (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days 0 earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 20 km SSW of Marathon, Texas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-103.338° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	30.037° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.0225 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	20 km SSW of Marathon, Texas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-02-13 18:30:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-13 18:58:53	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	43	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.4	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	107	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	tx2025dbzi	Id of event.
Event Code	2025dbzi	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pdh3,tx2025dbzi,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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