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M 1.8ml

9 km ENE of Gonzales, Texas

· 5.0 km deep · released about 15 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Gonzales County 15 kmCaldwell County 44 kmLavaca County 44 kmDeWitt County 49 kmFayette County 58 kmGuadalupe County 58 kmBastrop County 65 kmWilson County 81 kmColorado County 82 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.8 (ml)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Gonzales County, 15 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 328 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 15 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 710,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 63× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 15 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 29.5200, -97.3520. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Gonzales County, TX 15 km (9 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Gonzales County
Caldwell County, TX 44 km (27 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Caldwell County
Lavaca County, TX 44 km (27 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Lavaca County
DeWitt County, TX 49 km (30 mi) N of here earthquakes near DeWitt County
Fayette County, TX 58 km (36 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Fayette County
Guadalupe County, TX 58 km (36 mi) E of here earthquakes near Guadalupe County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 15 km E of Smiley, Texas
  2. 1.7 14 km ESE of Smiley, Texas
  3. 1.9 15 km E of Smiley, Texas
  4. 1.6 15 km E of Smiley, Texas
  5. 2.2 15 km E of Smiley, Texas
  6. 2.5 16 km E of Smiley, Texas
  7. 1.9 15 km E of Smiley, Texas
  8. 2.2 15 km E of Smiley, Texas
  9. 2.8 15 km E of Smiley, Texas
  10. 2.4 15 km E of Smiley, Texas
  11. 2.4 16 km ESE of Smiley, Texas
  12. 1.5 15 km ESE of Smiley, Texas
  13. 1.8 16 km E of Smiley, Texas
  14. 1.7 15 km ESE of Smiley, Texas
  15. 1.5 14 km ESE of Smiley, 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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