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M 3.0ml

20 km SW of Falls City, Texas

· 4.4 km deep · released about 950 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Karnes County 31 kmWilson County 37 kmAtascosa County 37 kmLive Oak County 56 kmBee County 63 kmMcMullen County 66 kmGoliad County 74 kmBexar County 75 kmDeWitt County 82 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 3.0 (ml)
Depth
4.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Karnes County, 31 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 452 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 950 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 16,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 11,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 950 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 28.8510, -98.1610. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Karnes County, TX 31 km (19 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Karnes County
Wilson County, TX 37 km (23 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Wilson County
Atascosa County, TX 37 km (23 mi) E of here earthquakes near Atascosa County
Live Oak County, TX 56 km (35 mi) N of here earthquakes near Live Oak County
Bee County, TX 63 km (39 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Bee County
McMullen County, TX 66 km (41 mi) NE of here earthquakes near McMullen County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.6 17 km SW of Falls City, Texas
  2. 1.7 17 km SW of Falls City, Texas
  3. 1.6 18 km SSW of Falls City, Texas
  4. 3.0 17 km SW of Falls City, Texas
  5. 1.7 17 km SW of Falls City, Texas
  6. 1.6 17 km SW of Falls City, Texas
  7. 1.6 19 km SSW of Falls City, Texas
  8. 2.1 18 km SW of Falls City, Texas
  9. 1.5 20 km SW of Falls City, Texas
  10. 1.6 18 km SW of Falls City, Texas
  11. 1.9 17 km SW of Falls City, Texas
  12. 1.8 11 km SSW of Falls City, Texas
  13. 1.8 21 km S of Nixon, Texas
  14. 2.3 21 km ENE of Falls City, Texas
  15. 1.9 20 km ENE of Falls City, 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 32 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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