Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Toyah in Texas

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Toyah in Texas on Saturday. The temblor was picked up at 05:23:21 / 5:23 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/02/25 / 2025-02-15 05:23:21 / February 15, 2025 @ 5:23 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.6125 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: tx2025deqh. Event ids that are associated: us7000pdw4, tx2025deqh. Exact location of event, depth 6.6125 km, -104.18° West, 31.661° North.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Carlsbad, Pecos (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 26 100 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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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: 53 km NW of Toyah, Texas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-104.18° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.661° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.6125 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 05:58:52	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	557	The total number of felt reports
CDI	5.3	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	5.876	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	680	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	14	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	67	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	tx2025deqh	Id of event.
Event Code	2025deqh	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pdw4,tx2025deqh,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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