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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.6ml

31 km SE of Malaga, New Mexico

· 7.0 km deep · released about 240 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Loving County 35 kmEddy County 65 kmReeves County 78 kmWinkler County 80 kmCulberson County 86 kmWard County 91 kmLea County 100 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 2.6 (ml)
Depth
7.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Loving County, 35 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1254 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 31.9933, -103.8827. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Loving County, TX 35 km (21 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Loving County
Eddy County, NM 65 km (41 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Eddy County
Reeves County, TX 78 km (48 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Reeves County
Winkler County, TX 80 km (50 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Winkler County
Culberson County, TX 86 km (54 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Culberson County
Ward County, TX 91 km (56 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Ward County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 36 km NNW of Toyah, Texas
  2. 1.6 36 km WSW of Mentone, Texas
  3. 2.4 36 km WSW of Mentone, Texas
  4. 1.6 37 km WSW of Mentone, Texas
  5. 1.9 36 km WSW of Mentone, Texas
  6. 1.5 40 km WSW of Mentone, Texas
  7. 2.2 western Texas
  8. 1.8 36 km NNW of Toyah, Texas
  9. 1.7 38 km NNW of Toyah, Texas
  10. 1.8 54 km SSE of Whites City, New Mexico
  11. 1.5 47 km NW of Toyah, Texas
  12. 1.8 43 km NW of Toyah, Texas
  13. 1.9 46 km NW of Toyah, Texas
  14. 1.8 46 km NW of Toyah, Texas
  15. 1.6 51 km W of Mentone, 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 16,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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