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M 2.6ml

16 km NE of Jal, New Mexico

· 6.9 km deep · released about 240 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Andrews County 43 kmWinkler County 43 kmLoving County 62 kmEctor County 64 kmLea County 71 kmGaines County 72 kmWard County 79 kmCrane County 105 kmMartin County 106 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 2.6 (ml)
Depth
6.9 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Andrews County, 43 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1338 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 240 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 63,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 45,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 240 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 32.2220, -103.0796. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Andrews County, TX 43 km (26 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Andrews County
Winkler County, TX 43 km (27 mi) N of here earthquakes near Winkler County
Loving County, TX 62 km (38 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Loving County
Ector County, TX 64 km (40 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Ector County
Lea County, NM 71 km (44 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Lea County
Gaines County, TX 72 km (45 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Gaines County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 19 km ESE of Jal, New Mexico
  2. 1.7 14 km E of Jal, New Mexico
  3. 1.8 16 km ESE of Jal, New Mexico
  4. 2.9 20 km ESE of Jal, New Mexico
  5. 2.4 20 km ESE of Jal, New Mexico
  6. 1.8 18 km ESE of Jal, New Mexico
  7. 1.7 19 km ESE of Jal, New Mexico
  8. 2.0 18 km ESE of Jal, New Mexico
  9. 1.9 18 km ESE of Jal, New Mexico
  10. 1.9 25 km SW of Jal, New Mexico
  11. 2.4 18 km NNW of Goldsmith, Texas
  12. 2.1 27 km SW of Jal, New Mexico
  13. 2.3 27 km SW of Jal, New Mexico
  14. 2.2 27 km SW of Jal, New Mexico
  15. 1.9 25 km SW 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.

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