- When
- Magnitude
- M 5.2 (ml)
- Depth
- 8.2 km below the surface
- Felt
- 2405 reports · strongest reported intensity VIII
- Measured shaking
- intensity VI (ShakeMap)
- USGS impact alert
- green
- Nearest
- Martin County, 21 km NE
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 665 days ago
This was a moderate earthquake. Shaking at this size can damage poorly built structures close to the epicentre. 2405 people have reported feeling it to USGS.
How big was it?
This earthquake released about 950 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 6.2 would have released about 32 times as much.
- Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 180× the energy of this one
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 7.9× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 5.6× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 5.2 about 950 tons of TNT
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2,000× 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 32.1910, -102.1410. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Martin County, TX | 21 km (13 mi) | SW of here | earthquakes near Martin County |
| Midland County, TX | 44 km (27 mi) | NNW of here | earthquakes near Midland County |
| Andrews County, TX | 49 km (30 mi) | ESE of here | earthquakes near Andrews County |
| Ector County, TX | 52 km (33 mi) | NE of here | earthquakes near Ector County |
| Dawson County, TX | 64 km (40 mi) | SSW of here | earthquakes near Dawson County |
| Howard County, TX | 67 km (42 mi) | W of here | earthquakes near Howard County |
Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.
Aftershocks so far
53 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.
- 1.5 37 km ENE of McKinney Acres, Texas
- 2.9 13 km NNW of Midland, Texas
- 1.7 13 km ESE of Stanton, Texas
- 1.5 13 km ESE of Stanton, Texas
- 1.8 22 km NNW of Midland, Texas
- 2.0 36 km SSW of Los Ybanez, Texas
- 2.2 13 km NNE of Midland, Texas
- 2.0 36 km SSW of Los Ybanez, Texas
- 1.7 32 km SSW of Los Ybanez, Texas
- 1.9 11 km N of Midland, Texas
- 2.3 western Texas
- 1.7 8 km S of Ackerly, Texas
- 3.1 20 km NW of Stanton, Texas
- 2.3 32 km SSW of Los Ybanez, Texas
- 1.8 6 km SE of Gardendale, 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.
From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.
On USGS
- The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
- Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
- ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one
QuakeIndex does not issue warnings. For earthquake early warning see ShakeAlert.