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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.0ml

7 km W of Pecan Plantation, Texas

· 6.9 km deep · released about 30 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Hood County 11 kmSomervell County 15 kmJohnson County 37 kmErath County 45 kmParker County 47 kmBosque County 52 kmTarrant County 64 kmPalo Pinto County 68 kmHill County 72 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (ml)
Depth
6.9 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Hood County, 11 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 541 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 30 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 32× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 30 lb of TNT

Energy from the Gutenberg–Richter relation (log10E = 1.5M + 4.8), rounded to two figures; bar length is magnitude, which is already a logarithm of energy. Magnitudes of past earthquakes from the USGS catalogue.

Where

Epicentre 32.3570, -97.7590. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Hood County, TX 11 km (7 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Hood County
Somervell County, TX 15 km (10 mi) N of here earthquakes near Somervell County
Johnson County, TX 37 km (23 mi) W of here earthquakes near Johnson County
Erath County, TX 45 km (28 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Erath County
Parker County, TX 47 km (29 mi) S of here earthquakes near Parker County
Bosque County, TX 52 km (32 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Bosque County

Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.

Aftershocks so far

2 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.

  1. 2.4 2 km SSW of Joshua, Texas
  2. 2.4 10 km WSW of Cleburne, Texas

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of . QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

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