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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

6 km N of Itasca, Texas

· 2.2 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Hill County 26 kmJohnson County 27 kmEllis County 37 kmBosque County 57 kmSomervell County 58 kmTarrant County 63 kmNavarro County 67 kmHood County 68 kmDallas County 71 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
2.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Hill County, 26 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 542 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 7.6 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.6 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 32.2160, -97.1570. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Hill County, TX 26 km (16 mi) N of here earthquakes near Hill County
Johnson County, TX 27 km (17 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Johnson County
Ellis County, TX 37 km (23 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Ellis County
Bosque County, TX 57 km (36 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Bosque County
Somervell County, TX 58 km (36 mi) E of here earthquakes near Somervell County
Tarrant County, TX 63 km (39 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Tarrant County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.1 7 km SSW of Mansfield, Texas
  2. 3.2 7 km S of Mansfield, Texas
  3. 2.3 7 km S of Mansfield, Texas
  4. 1.8 5 km N of Itasca, 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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