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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.6ml

5 km SE of Ackerly, Texas

· 8.9 km deep · released about 240 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Howard County 31 kmMartin County 33 kmBorden County 36 kmDawson County 38 kmGlasscock County 71 kmMitchell County 74 kmScurry County 77 kmLynn County 78 kmMidland County 81 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.6 (ml)
Depth
8.9 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Howard County, 31 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 996 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 32.4911, -101.6798. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Howard County, TX 31 km (19 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Howard County
Martin County, TX 33 km (21 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Martin County
Borden County, TX 36 km (22 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Borden County
Dawson County, TX 38 km (23 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Dawson County
Glasscock County, TX 71 km (44 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Glasscock County
Mitchell County, TX 74 km (46 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Mitchell County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 37 km SSW of Los Ybanez, Texas
  2. 1.5 31 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas
  3. 1.6 5 km SSE of Ackerly, Texas
  4. 2.3 29 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas
  5. 1.5 21 km NNW of Stanton, Texas
  6. 1.6 22 km NW of Westbrook, Texas
  7. 2.0 39 km NW of Stanton, Texas
  8. 1.5 38 km NW of Stanton, Texas
  9. 1.9 30 km SSW of Los Ybanez, Texas
  10. 3.2 5 km SE of Ackerly, Texas
  11. 2.5 40 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas
  12. 1.7 31 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas
  13. 1.5 12 km WSW of Forsan, Texas
  14. 3.1 29 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas
  15. 2.4 39 km E of McKinney Acres, 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 — 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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