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M 3.8ml

39 km NW of Toyah, Texas

· 6.1 km deep · released about 7.6 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Culberson County 43 kmReeves County 46 kmLoving County 60 kmWard County 94 kmEddy County 102 kmWinkler County 103 kmJeff Davis County 104 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 3.8 (ml)
Depth
6.1 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Culberson County, 43 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1107 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 7.6 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 22,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 710× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.8 about 7.6 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 16× more

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 31.5600, -104.0940. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Culberson County, TX 43 km (27 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Culberson County
Reeves County, TX 46 km (28 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Reeves County
Loving County, TX 60 km (37 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Loving County
Ward County, TX 94 km (58 mi) W of here earthquakes near Ward County
Eddy County, NM 102 km (63 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Eddy County
Winkler County, TX 103 km (64 mi) WSW 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. 1.8 61 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  2. 2.0 56 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  3. 2.7 56 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  4. 2.7 55 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  5. 2.6 western Texas
  6. 2.0 54 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  7. 1.9 34 km NW of Mentone, Texas
  8. 1.7 56 km NW of Toyah, Texas
  9. 2.5 56 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  10. 1.7 56 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  11. 2.2 32 km WSW of Mentone, Texas
  12. 1.5 55 km NW of Toyah, Texas
  13. 2.2 61 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  14. 1.6 30 km NW of Toyah, Texas
  15. 2.0 46 km NW of Toyah, 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 250 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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