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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5ml

16 km SSE of Stockdale, Texas

· 6.8 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Wilson County 21 kmKarnes County 22 kmDeWitt County 51 kmGuadalupe County 53 kmGonzales County 55 kmGoliad County 66 kmAtascosa County 68 kmBexar County 72 kmBee County 78 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
6.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Wilson County, 21 km WNW
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 29.1060, -97.8850. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Wilson County, TX 21 km (13 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Wilson County
Karnes County, TX 22 km (14 mi) N of here earthquakes near Karnes County
DeWitt County, TX 51 km (32 mi) W of here earthquakes near DeWitt County
Guadalupe County, TX 53 km (33 mi) S of here earthquakes near Guadalupe County
Gonzales County, TX 55 km (34 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Gonzales County
Goliad County, TX 66 km (41 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Goliad County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.5 17 km ESE of Pleasanton, Texas
  2. 1.7 17 km ESE of Pleasanton, Texas
  3. 1.9 17 km ESE of Pleasanton, Texas
  4. 1.8 17 km ESE of Pleasanton, Texas
  5. 1.5 16 km ESE of Pleasanton, Texas
  6. 2.0 17 km ESE of Pleasanton, Texas
  7. 1.6 16 km ESE of Pleasanton, Texas
  8. 1.5 16 km ESE of Pleasanton, Texas
  9. 2.1 17 km ESE of Pleasanton, Texas
  10. 1.6 13 km S of Smiley, Texas
  11. 2.0 17 km SSE of Nixon, Texas
  12. 1.6 11 km S of Smiley, Texas
  13. 1.6 18 km SSE of Nixon, Texas
  14. 2.6 16 km SSE of Nixon, Texas
  15. 1.9 17 km SSE of Nixon, 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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