Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Toyah in Texas

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Toyah in Texas on Thursday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 8.8171 km (5 miles). Id of earthquake: tx2025eamf. Event ids that are associated: us6000pvr6, tx2025eamf. Exact time and date of earthquake 27/02/25 / 2025-02-27 04:19:19 / February 27, 2025 @ 4:19 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 04:19:19 / 4:19 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 8.8171 km, -103.971° West, 31.607° North.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pecos.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 36 km NNW of Toyah, Texas. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-103.971° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.607° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.8171 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	36 km NNW 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	2025-02-27 04:19:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-27 04:58:44	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	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	130	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	21	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0	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	58	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	tx2025eamf	Id of event.
Event Code	2025eamf	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pvr6,tx2025eamf,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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