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M 2.3ml

16 km ENE of Big Wells, Texas

· 7.0 km deep · released about 85 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (ml)
Depth
7.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Frio County, 40 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 370 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 85 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 130,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 11× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 85 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 28.6310, -99.4150. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Frio County, TX 40 km (25 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Frio County
Dimmit County, TX 41 km (26 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Dimmit County
Zavala County, TX 42 km (26 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Zavala County
La Salle County, TX 44 km (27 mi) NW of here earthquakes near La Salle County
Medina County, TX 86 km (53 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Medina County
McMullen County, TX 86 km (54 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near McMullen 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. 2.0 12 km ESE of Pearsall, Texas
  2. 1.8 16 km ENE of Hilltop, Texas
  3. 1.7 11 km SSE of Pearsall, Texas
  4. 1.7 15 km NW of Fowlerton, Texas
  5. 1.7 1 km E of North Pearsall, Texas
  6. 1.7 17 km NW of Fowlerton, Texas
  7. 1.7 22 km E of Dilley, Texas
  8. 2.2 22 km E of Dilley, Texas
  9. 1.8 22 km E of Dilley, Texas
  10. 1.6 24 km E of Dilley, Texas
  11. 1.7 22 km E of Dilley, Texas
  12. 1.6 1 km S of Dilley, Texas
  13. 1.7 17 km NW of Fowlerton, Texas
  14. 2.1 16 km ENE of Hilltop, Texas
  15. 1.9 16 km SSE of Pearsall, 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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