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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5ml

16 km SSE of Nixon, Texas

· 8.8 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Karnes County 28 kmDeWitt County 34 kmWilson County 38 kmGonzales County 43 kmGuadalupe County 56 kmGoliad County 58 kmBee County 79 kmCaldwell County 79 kmVictoria County 80 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
8.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Karnes County, 28 km SSW
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 5.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 180× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.4 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 29.1240, -97.7040. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Karnes County, TX 28 km (17 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Karnes County
DeWitt County, TX 34 km (21 mi) W of here earthquakes near DeWitt County
Wilson County, TX 38 km (23 mi) E of here earthquakes near Wilson County
Gonzales County, TX 43 km (27 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Gonzales County
Guadalupe County, TX 56 km (35 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Guadalupe County
Goliad County, TX 58 km (36 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Goliad County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.1 18 km N of Yorktown, Texas
  2. 1.6 15 km S of Smiley, Texas
  3. 1.7 12 km ENE of Falls City, Texas
  4. 2.1 12 km ENE of Falls City, Texas
  5. 2.6 12 km ENE of Falls City, Texas
  6. 3.0 13 km SSE of Stockdale, Texas
  7. 2.7 12 km ENE of Falls City, Texas
  8. 1.8 14 km ESE of Smiley, Texas
  9. 1.8 13 km ESE of Smiley, Texas
  10. 1.9 13 km ESE of Smiley, Texas
  11. 1.8 12 km ESE of Smiley, Texas
  12. 2.2 11 km ENE of Falls City, Texas
  13. 2.5 14 km ESE of Smiley, Texas
  14. 1.8 13 km ESE of Smiley, Texas
  15. 2.5 14 km ESE of Smiley, 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 5,600 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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