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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.3ml

33 km SE of Malaga, New Mexico

· 7.7 km deep · released about 1.3 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Loving County 31 kmEddy County 68 kmWinkler County 75 kmReeves County 78 kmWard County 87 kmCulberson County 90 kmLea County 97 kmAndrews County 117 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 3.3 (ml)
Depth
7.7 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Loving County, 31 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1366 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 1.3 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 130,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 5,600× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 4,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.3 about 1.3 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2.8× more

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 32.0003, -103.8287. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Loving County, TX 31 km (19 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Loving County
Eddy County, NM 68 km (42 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Eddy County
Winkler County, TX 75 km (47 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Winkler County
Reeves County, TX 78 km (48 mi) N of here earthquakes near Reeves County
Ward County, TX 87 km (54 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Ward County
Culberson County, TX 90 km (56 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Culberson County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 36 km WSW of Mentone, Texas
  2. 2.2 39 km W of Mentone, Texas
  3. 2.2 western Texas
  4. 1.6 37 km NNW of Toyah, Texas
  5. 2.0 37 km NNW of Toyah, Texas
  6. 2.0 37 km NNW of Toyah, Texas
  7. 2.0 51 km W of Mentone, Texas
  8. 2.0 50 km W of Mentone, Texas
  9. 2.2 western Texas
  10. 1.8 51 km W of Mentone, Texas
  11. 2.1 50 km W of Mentone, Texas
  12. 2.2 51 km W of Mentone, Texas
  13. 2.3 50 km W of Mentone, Texas
  14. 2.1 51 km W of Mentone, Texas
  15. 2.4 western 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 5.0 on 2020-03-26 — 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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