Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Toyah in Texas

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Toyah in Texas on Thursday. Exact location, longitude -103.9609° West, latitude 31.5897° North, depth = 8.247 km. Global time and date of event 27/02/25 / 2025-02-27 04:19:19 / February 27, 2025 @ 4:19 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 04:19:19 / 4:19 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.247 km (5 miles). Unique identifier: us6000pvr6. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000pvr6.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pecos. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 34 km NNW of Toyah, Texas. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-103.9609° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.5897° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.247 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	34 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 04:29:32	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	139	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	28	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.057	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.31 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	69	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	us6000pvr6	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pvr6	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pvr6,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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