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M 4.0ml

37 km ESE of Malaga, New Mexico

· 7.8 km deep · released about 15 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Loving County 29 kmWinkler County 68 kmEddy County 70 kmReeves County 85 kmWard County 85 kmLea County 86 kmCulberson County 103 kmAndrews County 105 kmEctor County 113 km
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When
Magnitude
M 4.0 (ml)
Depth
7.8 km below the surface
Felt
5 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Loving County, 29 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1828 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon. 5 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 15 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 11,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 500× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 350× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.0 about 15 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 32× more

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 32.0712, -103.7192. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Loving County, TX 29 km (18 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Loving County
Winkler County, TX 68 km (42 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Winkler County
Eddy County, NM 70 km (43 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Eddy County
Reeves County, TX 85 km (53 mi) N of here earthquakes near Reeves County
Ward County, TX 85 km (53 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Ward County
Lea County, NM 86 km (53 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Lea County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 23 km WNW of Mentone, Texas
  2. 2.1 23 km WNW of Mentone, Texas
  3. 1.7 22 km WNW of Mentone, Texas
  4. 2.0 37 km ESE of Malaga, New Mexico
  5. 3.2 37 km ESE of Malaga, New Mexico
  6. 2.4 22 km WNW of Mentone, Texas
  7. 1.9 37 km ESE of Malaga, New Mexico
  8. 2.3 37 km ESE of Malaga, New Mexico
  9. 2.5 37 km ESE of Malaga, New Mexico
  10. 2.7 37 km ESE of Malaga, New Mexico
  11. 2.2 37 km ESE of Malaga, New Mexico
  12. 2.3 31 km S of Malaga, 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 5.0 on 2020-03-26 — it released about 32 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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