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M 2.3ml

22 km SE of Malaga, New Mexico

· 8.3 km deep · released about 85 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Loving County 42 kmEddy County 56 kmWinkler County 85 kmReeves County 88 kmLea County 91 kmCulberson County 93 kmWard County 99 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (ml)
Depth
8.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Loving County, 42 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1843 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 32.0870, -103.9025. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Loving County, TX 42 km (26 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Loving County
Eddy County, NM 56 km (35 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Eddy County
Winkler County, TX 85 km (53 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Winkler County
Reeves County, TX 88 km (55 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Reeves County
Lea County, NM 91 km (57 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Lea County
Culberson County, TX 93 km (58 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Culberson County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 37 km ESE of Malaga, New Mexico
  2. 1.9 31 km S of Malaga, New Mexico
  3. 2.3 37 km ESE of Malaga, New Mexico
  4. 3.2 37 km ESE of Malaga, New Mexico
  5. 1.7 50 km W of Mentone, Texas
  6. 1.8 51 km W of Mentone, Texas
  7. 2.5 23 km WNW of Mentone, Texas
  8. 2.0 23 km WNW of Mentone, Texas
  9. 2.2 51 km SSE of Whites City, New Mexico
  10. 1.9 53 km W of Mentone, Texas
  11. 2.4 22 km WNW of Mentone, Texas
  12. 3.0 23 km WNW of Mentone, Texas
  13. 2.0 23 km WNW of Mentone, Texas
  14. 2.5 23 km WNW 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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