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M 1.7ml

6 km WSW of Falls City, Texas

· 8.8 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Karnes County 22 kmWilson County 25 kmAtascosa County 46 kmLive Oak County 67 kmBee County 68 kmGoliad County 70 kmBexar County 70 kmDeWitt County 70 kmGuadalupe County 71 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
8.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Karnes County, 22 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 369 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 11 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 89× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 28.9530, -98.0700. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Karnes County, TX 22 km (14 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Karnes County
Wilson County, TX 25 km (15 mi) S of here earthquakes near Wilson County
Atascosa County, TX 46 km (28 mi) E of here earthquakes near Atascosa County
Live Oak County, TX 67 km (42 mi) N of here earthquakes near Live Oak County
Bee County, TX 68 km (42 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Bee County
Goliad County, TX 70 km (44 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Goliad County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 17 km S of Nixon, Texas
  2. 1.6 16 km S of Nixon, Texas
  3. 2.0 18 km S of Nixon, Texas
  4. 1.7 18 km S of Nixon, Texas
  5. 1.7 16 km S of Nixon, Texas
  6. 1.7 16 km S of Nixon, Texas
  7. 1.7 17 km S of Nixon, Texas
  8. 1.8 11 km SW of Poth, Texas
  9. 2.2 17 km S of Nixon, Texas
  10. 1.7 15 km S of Nixon, Texas
  11. 1.8 16 km S of Nixon, Texas
  12. 1.6 13 km ENE of Falls City, Texas
  13. 1.9 16 km ENE of Falls City, Texas
  14. 1.5 3 km SE of Falls City, Texas
  15. 2.0 18 km SW 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 2,800 times the energy of this one.

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

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