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M 2.1ml

western Texas

· 6.1 km deep · released about 43 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Culberson County 40 kmReeves County 57 kmLoving County 62 kmEddy County 92 kmWard County 102 kmWinkler County 107 kmJeff Davis County 113 kmHudspeth County 117 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.1 (ml)
Depth
6.1 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Culberson County, 40 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1301 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 43 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 350,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 250,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 22× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 43 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 31.6420, -104.1672. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Culberson County, TX 40 km (25 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Culberson County
Reeves County, TX 57 km (35 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Reeves County
Loving County, TX 62 km (38 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Loving County
Eddy County, NM 92 km (57 mi) S of here earthquakes near Eddy County
Ward County, TX 102 km (63 mi) W of here earthquakes near Ward County
Winkler County, TX 107 km (67 mi) W of here earthquakes near Winkler County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 56 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  2. 2.0 43 km NW of Toyah, Texas
  3. 1.8 54 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  4. 1.7 61 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  5. 2.6 western Texas
  6. 2.2 55 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  7. 2.0 50 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  8. 2.2 38 km NNW of Toyah, Texas
  9. 1.9 western Texas
  10. 1.9 western Texas
  11. 1.5 56 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  12. 2.6 51 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  13. 1.8 57 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  14. 1.8 37 km WSW of Mentone, Texas
  15. 2.4 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 89,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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