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M 2.3ml

8 km NNW of Nordheim, Texas

· 3.0 km deep · released about 85 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Karnes County 23 kmDeWitt County 28 kmGoliad County 42 kmWilson County 48 kmGonzales County 54 kmBee County 65 kmVictoria County 68 kmGuadalupe County 72 kmLavaca County 82 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (ml)
Depth
3.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Karnes County, 23 km WSW
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 85 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 130,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 11× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 85 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 28.9930, -97.6350. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Karnes County, TX 23 km (14 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Karnes County
DeWitt County, TX 28 km (18 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near DeWitt County
Goliad County, TX 42 km (26 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Goliad County
Wilson County, TX 48 km (30 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Wilson County
Gonzales County, TX 54 km (34 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Gonzales County
Bee County, TX 65 km (40 mi) N of here earthquakes near Bee County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.5 17 km SSE of Gonzales, Texas
  2. 1.9 18 km SSE of Gonzales, Texas
  3. 1.9 17 km SSE of Gonzales, Texas
  4. 2.5 17 km SSE of Gonzales, Texas
  5. 2.2 18 km SSE of Gonzales, Texas
  6. 1.8 16 km ENE of Smiley, Texas
  7. 1.8 17 km ENE of Smiley, Texas
  8. 1.6 13 km S of Smiley, Texas
  9. 2.0 17 km SSE of Nixon, Texas
  10. 1.6 11 km S of Smiley, Texas
  11. 1.6 18 km SSE of Nixon, Texas
  12. 2.6 16 km SSE of Nixon, Texas
  13. 1.9 17 km SSE of Nixon, Texas
  14. 2.0 15 km SSE of Nixon, Texas
  15. 1.8 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 350 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

On USGS

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