Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag strikes near Wells in Texas

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Wells in Texas. The epicenter was at a depth of 6.6895 km (4 miles). Unique identifier: tx2025gdex. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000pnin, tx2025gdex. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/03/25 / 2025-03-29 03:05:54 / March 29, 2025 @ 3:05 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -94.868 West, latitude 31.591 North, depth = 6.6895 km. The temblor was reported at 03:05:54 / 3:05 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Carthage, Whitehouse, Palestine (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 31 km (19 miles) from Lufkin (c. 35 100 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from Nacogdoches (c. 33 000 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Palestine (c. 18 700 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Jacksonville (c. 14 500 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Henderson (c. 13 700 pop).

Each 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 13 km NNE of Wells, Texas. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-94.868° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.591° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.6895 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13 km NNE of Wells, Texas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-03-29 03:05:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-29 03:17:56	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	5	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	168	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	9	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2	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	89	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	tx2025gdex	Id of event.
Event Code	2025gdex	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pnin,tx2025gdex,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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