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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.7ml

52 km SSW of Whites City, New Mexico

· 6.2 km deep · released about 340 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Culberson County 31 kmEddy County 85 kmHudspeth County 85 kmReeves County 91 kmLoving County 93 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 (ml)
Depth
6.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Culberson County, 31 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1337 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 340 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 45,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 32,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2.8× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.7 about 340 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 31.7220, -104.5389. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Culberson County, TX 31 km (19 mi) N of here earthquakes near Culberson County
Eddy County, NM 85 km (53 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Eddy County
Hudspeth County, TX 85 km (53 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Hudspeth County
Reeves County, TX 91 km (56 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Reeves County
Loving County, TX 93 km (58 mi) W of here earthquakes near Loving County
Otero County, NM 151 km (94 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Otero County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 52 km SSW of Whites City, New Mexico
  2. 2.9 54 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  3. 2.4 55 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  4. 1.8 55 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  5. 1.9 56 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  6. 2.0 56 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  7. 2.2 49 km NW of Toyah, Texas
  8. 2.0 54 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  9. 1.8 54 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  10. 2.2 53 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  11. 2.0 western Texas
  12. 2.0 52 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  13. 2.7 western Texas
  14. 2.0 western Texas
  15. 1.9 52 km SSW of Whites City, 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 5.0 on 2020-03-26 — it released about 2,800 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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