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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 20 km SW of Poth, Texas

Posted by admin on February 16, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 28.942S, -98.2411WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Poth in Texas. The temblor was reported at 20:10:43 / 8:10 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 16/02/25 / 2025-02-16 20:10:43 / February 16, 2025 @ 8:10 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us7000pe57. Event ids that are associated: us7000pe57. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -98.2411° West, 28.942° North, depth 5 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Beeville, Seguin, Selma (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 59 km (37 miles) from San Antonio (c. 1 327 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Schertz (c. 31 500 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Seguin (c. 25 200 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Universal City (c. 18 500 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Converse (c. 18 200 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 20 km SW of Poth, Texas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.2411° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.942° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20 km SW of Poth, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-02-16 20:10:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-16 20:18:54 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 138 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 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.304 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb_lg The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000pe57 Id of event.
Event Code 7000pe57 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pe57, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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