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M 3.2ml

17 km N of Stanton, Texas

· 8.2 km deep · released about 1,900 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Martin County 18 kmHoward County 32 kmGlasscock County 52 kmDawson County 53 kmMidland County 57 kmBorden County 59 kmMitchell County 80 kmAndrews County 81 kmSterling County 84 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 3.2 (ml)
Depth
8.2 km below the surface
Felt
5 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Martin County, 18 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1660 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 5 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,900 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 7,900× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 5,600× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 1,900 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2× 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 32.2870, -101.7752. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Martin County, TX 18 km (11 mi) E of here earthquakes near Martin County
Howard County, TX 32 km (20 mi) W of here earthquakes near Howard County
Glasscock County, TX 52 km (33 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Glasscock County
Dawson County, TX 53 km (33 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Dawson County
Midland County, TX 57 km (35 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Midland County
Borden County, TX 59 km (37 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Borden 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. 3.2 17 km SSE of Ackerly, Texas
  2. 3.5 18 km SSE of Ackerly, Texas
  3. 2.1 11 km SSW of Ackerly, Texas
  4. 2.6 35 km SSW of Los Ybanez, Texas
  5. 1.8 20 km NW of Stanton, Texas
  6. 1.7 38 km SSW of Los Ybanez, Texas
  7. 1.5 11 km N of Midland, Texas
  8. 1.9 16 km SSE of Stanton, Texas
  9. 1.7 31 km E of McKinney Acres, Texas
  10. 1.8 17 km NW of Stanton, Texas
  11. 1.6 33 km E of McKinney Acres, Texas
  12. 1.6 18 km NW of Midland, Texas
  13. 1.5 38 km ENE of McKinney Acres, Texas
  14. 2.6 10 km SSE of Midland, Texas
  15. 2.9 24 km W of Garden 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 4.6 on 2021-12-28 — it released about 130 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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