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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

19 km WNW of Mentone, Texas

· 8.5 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Loving County 21 kmReeves County 54 kmWinkler County 69 kmWard County 71 kmCulberson County 81 kmEddy County 89 kmLea County 117 kmEctor 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 1.7 (ml)
Depth
8.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Loving County, 21 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 549 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 11 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 89× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 31.7940, -103.7800. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Loving County, TX 21 km (13 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Loving County
Reeves County, TX 54 km (34 mi) N of here earthquakes near Reeves County
Winkler County, TX 69 km (43 mi) W of here earthquakes near Winkler County
Ward County, TX 71 km (44 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Ward County
Culberson County, TX 81 km (50 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Culberson County
Eddy County, NM 89 km (55 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Eddy County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 54 km NW of Toyah, Texas
  2. 2.3 44 km NW of Toyah, Texas
  3. 1.6 46 km NW of Toyah, Texas
  4. 2.7 36 km NNW of Toyah, Texas
  5. 1.8 56 km SSE of Whites City, New Mexico
  6. 1.6 46 km NW of Toyah, Texas
  7. 2.0 55 km NW of Toyah, Texas
  8. 2.5 western Texas
  9. 1.5 54 km NW of Toyah, Texas
  10. 2.2 35 km NNW of Toyah, Texas
  11. 2.5 35 km NNW of Toyah, Texas
  12. 1.6 36 km NNW of Toyah, Texas
  13. 1.5 35 km WSW of Mentone, Texas
  14. 1.9 7 km N of Toyah, Texas
  15. 2.0 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 5.4 on 2022-11-16 — it released about 350,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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