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M 2.3ml

3 km NNW of Lindsay, Texas

· 5.5 km deep · released about 85 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Reeves County 18 kmWard County 44 kmLoving County 50 kmWinkler County 68 kmCulberson County 93 kmCrane County 101 kmJeff Davis County 105 kmPecos County 105 kmEctor County 109 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (ml)
Depth
5.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Reeves County, 18 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1549 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 31.3964, -103.5525. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Reeves County, TX 18 km (11 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Reeves County
Ward County, TX 44 km (28 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Ward County
Loving County, TX 50 km (31 mi) S of here earthquakes near Loving County
Winkler County, TX 68 km (42 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Winkler County
Culberson County, TX 93 km (58 mi) E of here earthquakes near Culberson County
Crane County, TX 101 km (63 mi) W of here earthquakes near Crane County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 8 km SW of Lindsay, Texas
  2. 1.5 24 km W of Coyanosa, Texas
  3. 2.0 34 km NW of Toyah, Texas
  4. 2.4 37 km NNW of Toyah, Texas
  5. 2.1 36 km NNW of Toyah, Texas
  6. 2.8 37 km NNW of Toyah, Texas
  7. 1.5 28 km E of Balmorhea, Texas
  8. 2.0 21 km SW of Coyanosa, Texas
  9. 2.1 25 km SW of Coyanosa, Texas
  10. 2.9 20 km WSW of Coyanosa, Texas
  11. 2.3 25 km WSW of Coyanosa, Texas
  12. 2.2 5 km E of Lindsay, Texas
  13. 2.0 12 km SW of Toyah, Texas
  14. 1.5 19 km SSW of Lindsay, Texas
  15. 1.7 33 km SW of Coyanosa, 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 4.4 on 2021-12-16 — it released about 1,400 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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