Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Falls City in Texas

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Falls City in Texas. Global time and date of event 16/02/25 / 2025-02-16 20:10:42 / February 16, 2025 @ 8:10 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.251 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -98.19° West, latitude 28.9° North, depth = 7.251 km. Unique identifier: tx2025dhpe. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000pe57, tx2025dhpe. The temblor was detected at 20:10:42 / 8:10 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Selma, Live Oak, Cibolo. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 65 km (41 miles) from San Antonio (c. 1 327 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Schertz (c. 31 500 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Universal City (c. 18 500 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Converse (c. 18 200 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Cibolo (c. 15 300 pop).

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. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 19 km WSW of Falls City, Texas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.19° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	28.9° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.251 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	19 km WSW 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	2025-02-16 20:10:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-16 20:32:46	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	25	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	0.2 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	75	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	tx2025dhpe	Id of event.
Event Code	2025dhpe	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pe57,tx2025dhpe,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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