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M 3.2ml

western Texas

· 7.8 km deep · released about 1,900 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Martin County 32 kmMidland County 38 kmEctor County 42 kmAndrews County 47 kmGlasscock County 69 kmDawson County 74 kmHoward County 75 kmCrane County 81 kmGaines County 81 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 3.2 (ml)
Depth
7.8 km below the surface
Felt
35 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Martin County, 32 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1306 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 35 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,900 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 7,900× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 5,600× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 1,900 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2× 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 32.1085, -102.2007. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Martin County, TX 32 km (20 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Martin County
Midland County, TX 38 km (23 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Midland County
Ector County, TX 42 km (26 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Ector County
Andrews County, TX 47 km (29 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Andrews County
Glasscock County, TX 69 km (43 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Glasscock County
Dawson County, TX 74 km (46 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Dawson County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 37 km NW of Stanton, Texas
  2. 1.8 7 km SE of Gardendale, Texas
  3. 2.2 26 km SSW of Los Ybanez, Texas
  4. 2.0 30 km ESE of Midland, Texas
  5. 2.2 22 km NNW of Midland, Texas
  6. 2.1 22 km NNW of Midland, Texas
  7. 1.8 19 km N of Stanton, Texas
  8. 1.9 western Texas
  9. 2.4 21 km N of Stanton, Texas
  10. 1.5 31 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas
  11. 1.8 32 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas
  12. 1.7 32 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas
  13. 1.5 30 km ESE of Midland, Texas
  14. 1.5 34 km SSW of Los Ybanez, Texas
  15. 2.2 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 5.2 on 2022-12-16 — it released about 1,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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