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M 2.5ml

9 km S of Stockdale, Texas

· 6.3 km deep · released about 170 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Wilson County 12 kmKarnes County 29 kmGuadalupe County 48 kmGonzales County 57 kmDeWitt County 59 kmAtascosa County 63 kmBexar County 63 kmGoliad County 76 kmComal County 79 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 2.5 (ml)
Depth
6.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Wilson County, 12 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 452 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 170 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 89,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 63,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 5.6× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.5 about 170 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 29.1540, -97.9650. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Wilson County, TX 12 km (7 mi) E of here earthquakes near Wilson County
Karnes County, TX 29 km (18 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Karnes County
Guadalupe County, TX 48 km (30 mi) S of here earthquakes near Guadalupe County
Gonzales County, TX 57 km (36 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Gonzales County
DeWitt County, TX 59 km (37 mi) W of here earthquakes near DeWitt County
Atascosa County, TX 63 km (39 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Atascosa County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 16 km SSE of Nixon, Texas
  2. 1.7 15 km ENE of Falls City, Texas
  3. 2.9 14 km NNW of Yorktown, Texas
  4. 1.9 11 km S of Smiley, Texas
  5. 1.5 17 km S of Nixon, Texas
  6. 2.1 15 km SSE of Nixon, Texas
  7. 1.7 14 km SSW of Nixon, Texas
  8. 2.6 19 km S of Nixon, Texas
  9. 1.8 11 km SSE of Smiley, Texas
  10. 1.9 10 km SSE of Smiley, Texas
  11. 2.1 15 km S of Nixon, Texas
  12. 2.3 11 km ENE of Falls City, Texas
  13. 2.5 15 km NE of Falls City, Texas
  14. 1.6 9 km NE of Falls City, Texas
  15. 2.0 10 km ENE of Falls City, 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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