Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Falls City in Texas

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Falls City in Texas. The temblor was detected at 05:21:45 / 5:21 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Event id: us7000ppe7. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000ppe7. Exact location, longitude -98.0624° West, latitude 28.9378° North, depth = 5 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/04/25 / 2025-04-02 05:21:45 / April 2, 2025 @ 5:21 am.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cuero, Selma, Live Oak (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from San Antonio (c. 1 327 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Schertz (c. 31 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Seguin (c. 25 200 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Universal City (c. 18 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Converse (c. 18 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 6 km SW of Falls City, Texas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.0624° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	28.9378° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6 km SW 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	2025-04-02 05:21:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-04-02 05:36:43	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	4.1	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	19	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.238	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.48 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	132	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb_lg	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000ppe7	Id of event.
Event Code	7000ppe7	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000ppe7,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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