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M 1.6ml

5 km SSW of Farmers Branch, Texas

· 6.8 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Dallas County 18 kmTarrant County 37 kmDenton County 41 kmCollin County 47 kmRockwall County 48 kmEllis County 60 kmKaufman County 67 kmJohnson County 69 kmWise County 78 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
6.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Dallas County, 18 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 543 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 32.8780, -96.9210. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Dallas County, TX 18 km (11 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Dallas County
Tarrant County, TX 37 km (23 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Tarrant County
Denton County, TX 41 km (25 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Denton County
Collin County, TX 47 km (29 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Collin County
Rockwall County, TX 48 km (30 mi) W of here earthquakes near Rockwall County
Ellis County, TX 60 km (37 mi) N of here earthquakes near Ellis County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 6 km SSE of Farmers Branch, Texas
  2. 2.2 5 km S of Farmers Branch, Texas
  3. 3.1 7 km SSW of Mansfield, Texas
  4. 3.2 7 km S of Mansfield, Texas
  5. 1.7 1 km N of Justin, Texas
  6. 2.0 4 km SSE of Haslet, Texas
  7. 2.3 1 km NW of Northlake, Texas
  8. 1.5 5 km NNE of Irving, Texas
  9. 2.3 7 km S of Mansfield, Texas
  10. 1.8 0 km S of Lake Dallas, Texas
  11. 2.3 6 km NNE of Irving, 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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