Texas earthquakes

M3.4 earthquake 34 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas

A magnitude 3.4 earthquake struck 34 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas on Wed, Feb 26, 2025, 11:31 PM CST (05:31 UTC), 8 km (5 mi) below the surface.

A larger quake followed: M4.8 26 km SW of Ackerly, Texas. This one was a foreshock.

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The earthquake

Magnitude
3.4 (ml), minor
Local time
UTC
2025-02-27 05:31:21 UTC
Depth
7.6 km (4.7 mi), shallow
Epicenter
32.409° N, 102.059° W
Region
Texas
Felt reports
5
Tsunami flag
No
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

Did you feel it?

5 people reported to the USGS what they felt; the strongest reported shaking was III, weak shaking.

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Shaking reported by the public, by area. Map: USGS Did You Feel It?

Fault motion and ground failure

How the rock slipped, from the moment tensor, and the USGS estimate of landslides and liquefaction.

Faulting
Oblique normal
Moment magnitude
3.3 Mwr
Nodal plane 1
Strike 90°, dip 60°, rake -50°
Nodal plane 2
Strike 211°, dip 48°, rake -138°

How well it is located

Reviewed by a seismologist.

Location uncertainty
About 0.8 km horizontally, 1.0 km in depth
Magnitude uncertainty
±0.10
Station coverage gap
53°
Stations used
31

Nearest places

Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.

Nearby

Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 122 in the 60 days after this one and 66 in the 30 days before it.

After

  1. 1.834 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas · 573 days ago · 8 km deep · 0 km away
  2. 1.625 km SSE of Midland, Texas · 573 days ago · 8 km deep · 70 km away · felt by 1
  3. 1.537 km NW of Stanton, Texas · 572 days ago · 8 km deep · 7 km away
  4. 4.826 km SW of Ackerly, Texas · 571 days ago · 7 km deep · 13 km away · felt by 964
  5. 2.325 km SW of Ackerly, Texas · 571 days ago · 8 km deep · 13 km away · felt by 278
  6. 1.626 km SW of Ackerly, Texas · 571 days ago · 7 km deep · 12 km away · felt by 12
  7. 1.825 km SW of Ackerly, Texas · 571 days ago · 7 km deep · 14 km away · felt by 3
  8. 2.617 km SSE of Ackerly, Texas · 571 days ago · 7 km deep · 40 km away · felt by 4
  9. 1.520 km SE of Midland, Texas · 571 days ago · 6 km deep · 60 km away
  10. 1.835 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas · 569 days ago · 6 km deep · 0 km away
  11. 1.625 km SW of Ackerly, Texas · 569 days ago · 7 km deep · 13 km away · felt by 1
  12. 1.635 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas · 568 days ago · 7 km deep · 1 km away
  13. 1.520 km WSW of Garden City, Texas · 568 days ago · 7 km deep · 78 km away
  14. 1.519 km ENE of Garden City, Texas · 568 days ago · 8 km deep · 91 km away
  15. 1.534 km SSW of Los Ybanez, Texas · 567 days ago · 6 km deep · 7 km away
  16. 1.931 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas · 566 days ago · 8 km deep · 4 km away
  17. 1.936 km NW of Stanton, Texas · 566 days ago · 7 km deep · 5 km away
  18. 1.835 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas · 565 days ago · 7 km deep · 0 km away
  19. 1.611 km NNW of Midland, Texas · 565 days ago · 6 km deep · 35 km away
  20. 1.710 km SE of Midland, Texas · 564 days ago · 9 km deep · 53 km away
  21. 1.525 km SW of Ackerly, Texas · 563 days ago · 8 km deep · 13 km away
  22. 1.912 km SSE of Stanton, Texas · 563 days ago · 8 km deep · 52 km away
  23. 1.97 km WNW of Westbrook, Texas · 562 days ago · 8 km deep · 91 km away
  24. 1.936 km NW of Stanton, Texas · 560 days ago · 7 km deep · 6 km away
  25. 1.56 km SSE of Coahoma, Texas · 560 days ago · 8 km deep · 76 km away
  26. 2.019 km NW of Midland, Texas · 559 days ago · 6 km deep · 34 km away
  27. 2.536 km SSW of Los Ybanez, Texas · 559 days ago · 7 km deep · 3 km away
  28. 2.420 km NW of Midland, Texas · 559 days ago · 6 km deep · 34 km away
  29. 1.520 km NE of Gardendale, Texas · 558 days ago · 7 km deep · 33 km away
  30. 2.522 km W of Garden City, Texas · 558 days ago · 8 km deep · 68 km away · felt by 1
  31. 1.533 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas · 558 days ago · 8 km deep · 2 km away
  32. 1.833 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas · 558 days ago · 7 km deep · 3 km away
  33. 2.222 km W of Garden City, Texas · 557 days ago · 7 km deep · 68 km away
  34. 2.038 km NW of Stanton, Texas · 557 days ago · 7 km deep · 6 km away
  35. 2.638 km NW of Stanton, Texas · 556 days ago · 7 km deep · 6 km away
  36. 1.614 km E of Stanton, Texas · 556 days ago · 8 km deep · 50 km away
  37. 1.614 km E of Stanton, Texas · 556 days ago · 8 km deep · 50 km away
  38. 2.032 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas · 556 days ago · 8 km deep · 3 km away
  39. 1.514 km E of Stanton, Texas · 556 days ago · 7 km deep · 51 km away
  40. 2.338 km NW of Stanton, Texas · 555 days ago · 6 km deep · 6 km away
  41. 2.138 km NW of Stanton, Texas · 555 days ago · 7 km deep · 6 km away
  42. 1.710 km SSW of Ackerly, Texas · 554 days ago · 7 km deep · 30 km away
  43. 2.116 km NW of Stanton, Texas · 554 days ago · 7 km deep · 24 km away · felt by 1
  44. 2.610 km SSW of Ackerly, Texas · 554 days ago · 7 km deep · 30 km away · felt by 1
  45. 1.87 km E of Midland, Texas · 554 days ago · 7 km deep · 46 km away
  46. 1.617 km NW of Midland, Texas · 551 days ago · 6 km deep · 34 km away
  47. 2.428 km S of Westbrook, Texas · 550 days ago · 8 km deep · 99 km away
  48. 2.032 km E of McKinney Acres, Texas · 550 days ago · 8 km deep · 17 km away
  49. 1.527 km E of Forsan, Texas · 550 days ago · 4 km deep · 99 km away
  50. 1.911 km SSE of Forsan, Texas · 549 days ago · 8 km deep · 81 km away
  51. 1.535 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas · 549 days ago · 8 km deep · 1 km away
  52. 2.310 km SSE of Forsan, Texas · 549 days ago · 8 km deep · 80 km away
  53. 1.519 km NNW of Big Spring, Texas · 548 days ago · 4 km deep · 47 km away
  54. 1.627 km S of Westbrook, Texas · 547 days ago · 6 km deep · 100 km away
  55. 1.734 km SSW of Los Ybanez, Texas · 547 days ago · 9 km deep · 3 km away
  56. 2.114 km E of Stanton, Texas · 545 days ago · 7 km deep · 51 km away
  57. 1.530 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas · 545 days ago · 7 km deep · 6 km away
  58. 1.814 km WSW of Stanton, Texas · 544 days ago · 9 km deep · 40 km away
  59. 1.924 km SSW of Westbrook, Texas · 544 days ago · 5 km deep · 97 km away
  60. 2.39 km SSW of Big Spring, Texas · 542 days ago · 7 km deep · 59 km away

The first 60 of 122.

Before

  1. 1.525 km SSE of Midland, Texas · 575 days ago · 9 km deep · 70 km away
  2. 1.919 km SSW of Ackerly, Texas · 575 days ago · 6 km deep · 28 km away
  3. 2.735 km SSW of Los Ybanez, Texas · 575 days ago · 9 km deep · 6 km away · felt by 1
  4. 2.027 km NE of Crane, Texas · 576 days ago · 8 km deep · 93 km away
  5. 1.538 km ENE of McKinney Acres, Texas · 577 days ago · 7 km deep · 8 km away
  6. 1.536 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas · 578 days ago · 6 km deep · 2 km away
  7. 2.234 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas · 579 days ago · 8 km deep · 1 km away
  8. 1.614 km SSE of Stanton, Texas · 579 days ago · 8 km deep · 55 km away
  9. 2.314 km ESE of Stanton, Texas · 580 days ago · 6 km deep · 53 km away
  10. 1.69 km NE of Coahoma, Texas · 580 days ago · 9 km deep · 77 km away
  11. 1.514 km E of Stanton, Texas · 581 days ago · 8 km deep · 51 km away
  12. 2.117 km SE of Ackerly, Texas · 581 days ago · 5 km deep · 42 km away
  13. 2.25 km WSW of Westbrook, Texas · 581 days ago · 7 km deep · 93 km away
  14. 1.812 km SSW of Ackerly, Texas · 581 days ago · 6 km deep · 29 km away
  15. 1.519 km NE of Gardendale, Texas · 582 days ago · 6 km deep · 34 km away
  16. 2.122 km WNW of Stanton, Texas · 582 days ago · 6 km deep · 22 km away
  17. 1.631 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas · 582 days ago · 6 km deep · 5 km away
  18. 1.720 km NNW of Midland, Texas · 583 days ago · 7 km deep · 28 km away
  19. 1.619 km NE of Gardendale, Texas · 584 days ago · 6 km deep · 34 km away
  20. 1.833 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas · 584 days ago · 10 km deep · 3 km away

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From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event tx2025eaoq (also filed as us6000pvre). Read Wed, Sep 23, 2026, 12:50 AM UTC.