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M 2.2ml

6 km WNW of Yorktown, Texas

· 7.5 km deep · released about 60 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N DeWitt County 22 kmKarnes County 30 kmGoliad County 40 kmGonzales County 52 kmWilson County 54 kmVictoria County 62 kmBee County 67 kmGuadalupe County 75 kmLavaca County 76 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.2 (ml)
Depth
7.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
DeWitt County, 22 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 452 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 60 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 250,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 180,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 16× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.2 about 60 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 29.0010, -97.5670. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
DeWitt County, TX 22 km (14 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near DeWitt County
Karnes County, TX 30 km (18 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Karnes County
Goliad County, TX 40 km (25 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Goliad County
Gonzales County, TX 52 km (32 mi) S of here earthquakes near Gonzales County
Wilson County, TX 54 km (34 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Wilson County
Victoria County, TX 62 km (39 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Victoria County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 19 km S of Nixon, Texas
  2. 3.5 21 km E of Smiley, Texas
  3. 2.2 15 km E of Smiley, Texas
  4. 1.7 14 km ESE of Smiley, Texas
  5. 1.9 15 km E of Smiley, Texas
  6. 1.6 15 km E of Smiley, Texas
  7. 2.2 15 km E of Smiley, Texas
  8. 2.5 16 km E of Smiley, Texas
  9. 1.9 15 km E of Smiley, Texas
  10. 2.2 15 km E of Smiley, Texas
  11. 1.8 4 km NNW of Nordheim, Texas
  12. 2.8 15 km E of Smiley, Texas
  13. 2.4 15 km E of Smiley, Texas
  14. 2.4 16 km ESE of Smiley, Texas
  15. 1.5 15 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.0 on 2018-05-01 — it released about 500 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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