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M 2.0ml

29 km W of Garden City, Texas

· 4.3 km deep · released about 30 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Midland County 20 kmGlasscock County 26 kmMartin County 54 kmReagan County 58 kmUpton County 59 kmHoward County 62 kmSterling County 70 kmEctor County 71 kmCrane County 80 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (ml)
Depth
4.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Midland County, 20 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1957 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 30 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 32× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 30 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 31.8402, -101.7966. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Midland County, TX 20 km (12 mi) E of here earthquakes near Midland County
Glasscock County, TX 26 km (16 mi) W of here earthquakes near Glasscock County
Martin County, TX 54 km (34 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Martin County
Reagan County, TX 58 km (36 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Reagan County
Upton County, TX 59 km (37 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Upton County
Howard County, TX 62 km (38 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Howard County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.4 12 km NNW of Midland, Texas
  2. 1.9 15 km NNW of Midland, Texas
  3. 2.1 26 km W of Garden City, Texas
  4. 2.2 14 km NNW of Midland, Texas
  5. 1.7 8 km SE of Midland, Texas
  6. 1.8 14 km NNW of Midland, Texas
  7. 1.5 12 km N of Midland, Texas
  8. 2.3 17 km N of Stanton, Texas
  9. 1.6 8 km SE of Midland, Texas
  10. 2.8 15 km NNW of Midland, Texas
  11. 2.7 14 km NNW of Midland, Texas
  12. 2.0 15 km NNW of Midland, Texas
  13. 1.8 9 km SE of Midland, Texas
  14. 2.7 12 km N of Midland, Texas
  15. 2.0 12 km N of Midland, 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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