Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Toyah in Texas

A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Toyah in Texas on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 05:23:21 / 5:23 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us7000pdw4. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000pdw4. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 13.514 km (8 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -104.2053 West, latitude 31.6451 North, depth = 13.514 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/02/25 / 2025-02-15 05:23:21 / February 15, 2025 @ 5:23 am.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 86 km (54 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 26 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Carlsbad, Pecos.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days one hundred and nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. 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: 53 km NW of Toyah, Texas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-104.2053° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.6451° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	13.514 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	53 km NW of Toyah, Texas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-02-15 05:23:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-15 05:36:52	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	369	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	33	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.231	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.46 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	104	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000pdw4	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pdw4	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pdw4,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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