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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 30 km NW of Toyah, Texas


Earthquake location 31.519S, -104.011WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Toyah in Texas. The epicenter was at a depth of 5.6913 km (4 miles). Id of earthquake: tx2025gfqh. Event ids that are associated: tx2025gfqh. Exact location, longitude -104.011° West, latitude 31.519° North, depth = 5.6913 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/03/25 / 2025-03-30 11:07:11 / March 30, 2025 @ 11:07 am. The temblor was reported at 11:07:11 / 11:07 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 50 km (31 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pecos (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 30 km NW of Toyah, Texas.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.011° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.519° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.6913 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30 km NW 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 2025-03-30 11:07:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-03-30 11:12:51 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 automatic 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 121 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 ,tx, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 16 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 0.2 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 ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID tx2025gfqh Id of event.
Event Code 2025gfqh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,tx2025gfqh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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