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M 2.3ml

21 km SSW of Mentone, Texas

· 7.2 km deep · released about 85 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Reeves County 24 kmLoving County 38 kmWard County 56 kmWinkler County 70 kmCulberson County 79 kmJeff Davis County 111 kmCrane County 115 kmEctor County 115 kmEddy County 119 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (ml)
Depth
7.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Reeves County, 24 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1857 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 31.5251, -103.6943. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Reeves County, TX 24 km (15 mi) N of here earthquakes near Reeves County
Loving County, TX 38 km (23 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Loving County
Ward County, TX 56 km (35 mi) W of here earthquakes near Ward County
Winkler County, TX 70 km (43 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Winkler County
Culberson County, TX 79 km (49 mi) E of here earthquakes near Culberson County
Jeff Davis County, TX 111 km (69 mi) NNE 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

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

  1. 2.0 23 km WNW of Mentone, Texas
  2. 2.5 23 km WNW of Mentone, Texas
  3. 2.5 46 km NW of Toyah, Texas
  4. 2.1 44 km NW of Toyah, Texas
  5. 1.6 0 km NE of Lindsay, Texas
  6. 2.1 51 km NW of Toyah, Texas
  7. 1.8 44 km NW of Toyah, Texas
  8. 1.8 44 km NW of Toyah, Texas
  9. 1.7 50 km NW of Toyah, Texas
  10. 1.8 16 km SSE of Lindsay, Texas
  11. 2.0 40 km W of Mentone, Texas
  12. 2.2 40 km W of Mentone, Texas
  13. 2.0 42 km NW of Toyah, Texas
  14. 2.2 39 km W of Mentone, Texas
  15. 2.3 40 km W of Mentone, 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 5.0 on 2020-03-26 — it released about 11,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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