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M 1.7ml

10 km W of Shiner, Texas

· 7.2 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Gonzales County 21 kmLavaca County 35 kmDeWitt County 41 kmCaldwell County 55 kmFayette County 60 kmGuadalupe County 67 kmBastrop County 74 kmColorado County 76 kmVictoria County 78 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
7.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Gonzales County, 21 km W
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 11 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 89× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 29.4400, -97.2780. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Gonzales County, TX 21 km (13 mi) E of here earthquakes near Gonzales County
Lavaca County, TX 35 km (22 mi) W of here earthquakes near Lavaca County
DeWitt County, TX 41 km (25 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near DeWitt County
Caldwell County, TX 55 km (34 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Caldwell County
Fayette County, TX 60 km (37 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Fayette County
Guadalupe County, TX 67 km (42 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Guadalupe County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 17 km E of Smiley, Texas
  2. 2.2 16 km E of Smiley, Texas
  3. 2.1 17 km E of Smiley, Texas
  4. 2.0 17 km E of Smiley, Texas
  5. 2.0 11 km SSW of Smiley, Texas
  6. 1.7 11 km SSE of Smiley, Texas
  7. 1.8 9 km ENE of Gonzales, Texas
  8. 2.2 9 km SE of Smiley, Texas
  9. 2.3 16 km ENE of Smiley, Texas
  10. 2.1 18 km SSE of Gonzales, Texas
  11. 1.9 18 km SSE of Gonzales, Texas
  12. 2.2 17 km SSE of Gonzales, Texas
  13. 2.2 15 km SSE of Gonzales, Texas
  14. 1.9 17 km SSE of Gonzales, Texas
  15. 2.6 17 km SSE of Gonzales, 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.

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