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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.3ml

27 km NE of Mentone, Texas

· 4.6 km deep · released about 85 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Loving County 15 kmWinkler County 34 kmWard County 51 kmReeves County 71 kmEctor County 82 kmAndrews County 86 kmLea County 100 kmCrane County 102 kmEddy County 105 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (ml)
Depth
4.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Loving County, 15 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1470 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 31.8936, -103.4110. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Loving County, TX 15 km (9 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Loving County
Winkler County, TX 34 km (21 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Winkler County
Ward County, TX 51 km (32 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Ward County
Reeves County, TX 71 km (44 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Reeves County
Ector County, TX 82 km (51 mi) W of here earthquakes near Ector County
Andrews County, TX 86 km (54 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Andrews County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.4 34 km SE of Malaga, New Mexico
  2. 1.7 19 km WNW of Mentone, Texas
  3. 2.0 western Texas
  4. 3.6 13 km NE of Jal, New Mexico
  5. 2.2 34 km SE of Malaga, New Mexico
  6. 2.0 33 km SE of Malaga, New Mexico
  7. 2.3 western Texas
  8. 2.0 33 km SE of Malaga, New Mexico
  9. 2.1 19 km WNW of Mentone, Texas
  10. 2.1 33 km SE of Malaga, New Mexico
  11. 1.8 17 km NE of Jal, New Mexico
  12. 2.0 39 km W of Jal, New Mexico
  13. 2.1 16 km NE of Jal, New Mexico
  14. 2.0 33 km SE of Malaga, New Mexico
  15. 2.6 16 km NE of Jal, New Mexico

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 2021-07-19 — it released about 350 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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