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M 1.8ml

Texas-Chihuahua border region

· 8.2 km deep · released about 15 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Hudspeth County 40 kmCulberson County 49 kmEddy County 115 kmEl Paso County 118 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 1.8 (ml)
Depth
8.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Hudspeth County, 40 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1931 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 15 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 710,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 63× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 15 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 31.6159, -105.0068. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Hudspeth County, TX 40 km (25 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Hudspeth County
Culberson County, TX 49 km (31 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Culberson County
Eddy County, NM 115 km (71 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Eddy County
El Paso County, TX 118 km (73 mi) E of here earthquakes near El Paso County
Otero County, NM 131 km (82 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Otero County
Jeff Davis County, TX 135 km (84 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Jeff Davis 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. 1.6 western Texas
  2. 1.5 62 km SSW of Whites City, New Mexico
  3. 1.6 59 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  4. 1.8 53 km SSW of Whites City, New Mexico
  5. 1.6 52 km SSW of Whites City, New Mexico
  6. 2.1 64 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  7. 1.6 52 km SSW of Whites City, New Mexico
  8. 1.5 53 km SSW of Whites City, New Mexico
  9. 1.9 57 km SSW of Whites City, New Mexico
  10. 1.6 60 km SSW of Whites City, New Mexico
  11. 1.8 59 km SSW of Whites City, New Mexico
  12. 2.3 60 km SSW of Whites City, New Mexico
  13. 1.6 53 km SSW of Whites City, New Mexico
  14. 1.6 52 km SSW of Whites City, New Mexico
  15. 1.8 51 km SSW of Whites City, New Mexico

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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