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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.1ml

17 km SSE of Ackerly, Texas

· 7.9 km deep · released about 43 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Howard County 20 kmMartin County 32 kmBorden County 43 kmDawson County 49 kmGlasscock County 59 kmMitchell County 67 kmMidland County 73 kmScurry County 78 kmSterling County 82 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.1 (ml)
Depth
7.9 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Howard County, 20 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1702 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 43 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 350,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 250,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 22× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 43 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 32.3886, -101.6305. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Howard County, TX 20 km (13 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Howard County
Martin County, TX 32 km (20 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Martin County
Borden County, TX 43 km (27 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Borden County
Dawson County, TX 49 km (31 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Dawson County
Glasscock County, TX 59 km (37 mi) N of here earthquakes near Glasscock County
Mitchell County, TX 67 km (42 mi) W of here earthquakes near Mitchell County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.5 15 km SSE of Ackerly, Texas
  2. 3.6 16 km SSE of Ackerly, Texas
  3. 2.7 18 km SSE of Ackerly, Texas
  4. 2.8 16 km SE of Ackerly, Texas
  5. 3.3 19 km N of Stanton, Texas
  6. 2.6 18 km N of Stanton, Texas
  7. 2.6 17 km SE of Ackerly, Texas
  8. 3.9 18 km SE of Ackerly, Texas
  9. 1.8 10 km ENE of Stanton, Texas
  10. 2.1 18 km N of Stanton, Texas
  11. 2.3 17 km NW of Big Spring, Texas
  12. 2.3 20 km NW of Stanton, Texas
  13. 2.3 20 km NW of Stanton, Texas
  14. 2.3 21 km NW of Stanton, Texas
  15. 2.6 26 km NW of Westbrook, 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 5,600 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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