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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.7mlv

11 km S of Ackerly, Texas

· 9.7 km deep · released about 300 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Martin County 25 kmHoward County 31 kmDawson County 41 kmBorden County 45 kmGlasscock County 65 kmMidland County 72 kmMitchell County 77 kmLynn County 85 kmScurry County 85 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 2.7 (mlv)
Depth
9.7 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Martin County, 25 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1436 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 300 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 51,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 36,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 3.2× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.7 about 300 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 32.4207, -101.7345. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Martin County, TX 25 km (15 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Martin County
Howard County, TX 31 km (19 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Howard County
Dawson County, TX 41 km (26 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Dawson County
Borden County, TX 45 km (28 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Borden County
Glasscock County, TX 65 km (40 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Glasscock County
Midland County, TX 72 km (45 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Midland County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 23 km NNW of Midland, Texas
  2. 2.6 22 km NNW of Midland, Texas
  3. 2.6 23 km NNW of Midland, Texas
  4. 1.8 western Texas
  5. 3.4 21 km NNW of Midland, Texas
  6. 5.2 Range Hill, Texas
  7. 2.9 17 km N of Stanton, Texas
  8. 2.1 western Texas
  9. 3.0 35 km SSW of Los Ybanez, Texas
  10. 2.6 35 km SSW of Los Ybanez, Texas
  11. 1.9 16 km SSE of Ackerly, Texas
  12. 2.1 20 km NW of Stanton, Texas
  13. 2.0 21 km NW of Stanton, Texas
  14. 1.9 18 km NW of Stanton, Texas
  15. 1.8 22 km NW of Stanton, 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 4.6 on 2021-12-28 — it released about 810 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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