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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

14 km SSW of Nixon, Texas

· 6.1 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Wilson County 26 kmKarnes County 27 kmDeWitt County 46 kmGonzales County 47 kmGuadalupe County 50 kmGoliad County 66 kmAtascosa County 75 kmBexar County 75 kmCaldwell County 78 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
6.1 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Wilson County, 26 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 452 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 11 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 89× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 29.1490, -97.8240. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Wilson County, TX 26 km (16 mi) E of here earthquakes near Wilson County
Karnes County, TX 27 km (17 mi) N of here earthquakes near Karnes County
DeWitt County, TX 46 km (28 mi) W of here earthquakes near DeWitt County
Gonzales County, TX 47 km (29 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Gonzales County
Guadalupe County, TX 50 km (31 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Guadalupe County
Goliad County, TX 66 km (41 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Goliad County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 16 km NNW of Pawnee, Texas
  2. 1.7 16 km NNW of Pawnee, Texas
  3. 1.5 9 km NW of Nordheim, Texas
  4. 1.5 11 km ENE of Falls City, Texas
  5. 2.0 10 km ENE of Falls City, Texas
  6. 1.5 10 km ENE of Falls City, Texas
  7. 1.6 12 km SSE of Smiley, Texas
  8. 1.6 9 km ENE of Falls City, Texas
  9. 1.9 10 km ENE of Falls City, Texas
  10. 1.5 12 km ENE of Falls City, Texas
  11. 2.3 10 km ENE of Falls City, Texas
  12. 1.9 10 km ENE of Falls City, Texas
  13. 3.0 7 km NNE of Falls City, Texas
  14. 1.6 10 km ENE of Falls City, Texas
  15. 1.6 9 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.0 on 2018-05-01 — it released about 2,800 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

On USGS

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