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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

38 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas

· 8.2 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Martin County 17 kmDawson County 40 kmAndrews County 52 kmGaines County 62 kmHoward County 63 kmMidland County 67 kmBorden County 72 kmEctor County 73 kmGlasscock County 81 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
8.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Martin County, 17 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 290 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 7.6 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.6 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 32.4070, -102.1020. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Martin County, TX 17 km (11 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Martin County
Dawson County, TX 40 km (25 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Dawson County
Andrews County, TX 52 km (32 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Andrews County
Gaines County, TX 62 km (39 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Gaines County
Howard County, TX 63 km (39 mi) W of here earthquakes near Howard County
Midland County, TX 67 km (41 mi) N of here earthquakes near Midland County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 5 km ENE of Gardendale, Texas
  2. 1.7 5 km ENE of Gardendale, Texas
  3. 2.1 32 km SSW of Los Ybanez, Texas
  4. 2.2 34 km SSW of Los Ybanez, Texas
  5. 3.4 31 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas
  6. 1.8 37 km ENE of McKinney Acres, Texas
  7. 2.2 33 km SSW of Los Ybanez, Texas
  8. 1.6 37 km ENE of McKinney Acres, Texas
  9. 3.0 western Texas
  10. 2.0 western Texas
  11. 2.0 21 km NNW of Midland, Texas
  12. 2.0 29 km SSW of Los Ybanez, Texas
  13. 3.5 17 km SSE of Ackerly, Texas
  14. 1.9 35 km SW of Los Ybanez, Texas
  15. 1.8 22 km NNW of Midland, 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 5.2 on 2022-12-16 — it released about 250,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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