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M 2.5ml

15 km NNE of Balmorhea, Texas

· 5.6 km deep · released about 170 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Reeves County 21 kmWard County 70 kmJeff Davis County 73 kmLoving County 82 kmCulberson County 88 kmWinkler County 99 kmPecos County 100 kmCrane County 119 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 2.5 (ml)
Depth
5.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Reeves County, 21 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1212 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 170 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 89,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 63,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 5.6× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.5 about 170 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 31.1181, -103.6855. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Reeves County, TX 21 km (13 mi) S of here earthquakes near Reeves County
Ward County, TX 70 km (44 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Ward County
Jeff Davis County, TX 73 km (45 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Jeff Davis County
Loving County, TX 82 km (51 mi) S of here earthquakes near Loving County
Culberson County, TX 88 km (55 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Culberson County
Winkler County, TX 99 km (62 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Winkler County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 21 km WSW of Coyanosa, Texas
  2. 1.5 21 km WSW of Coyanosa, Texas
  3. 2.4 21 km WSW of Coyanosa, Texas
  4. 2.3 20 km WSW of Coyanosa, Texas
  5. 2.4 20 km WSW of Coyanosa, Texas
  6. 1.8 30 km ENE of Balmorhea, Texas
  7. 2.1 15 km ESE of Balmorhea, Texas
  8. 2.3 western Texas
  9. 1.9 14 km ESE of Lindsay, Texas
  10. 2.5 13 km ESE of Lindsay, Texas
  11. 2.0 17 km SE of Lindsay, Texas
  12. 2.2 14 km SSE of Toyah, Texas
  13. 1.7 11 km S of Lindsay, Texas
  14. 2.0 4 km N of Lindsay, Texas
  15. 2.0 2 km SE of Lindsay, 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.

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