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M 3.2ml

7 km SSE of Midland, Texas

· 8.0 km deep · released about 1,900 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Midland County 14 kmMartin County 42 kmEctor County 48 kmGlasscock County 50 kmUpton County 65 kmHoward County 70 kmAndrews County 70 kmCrane County 71 kmReagan County 80 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 3.2 (ml)
Depth
8.0 km below the surface
Felt
64 reports · strongest reported intensity V
Nearest
Midland County, 14 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 740 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 64 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,900 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 7,900× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 5,600× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 1,900 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2× 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 31.9400, -102.0399. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Midland County, TX 14 km (9 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Midland County
Martin County, TX 42 km (26 mi) S of here earthquakes near Martin County
Ector County, TX 48 km (30 mi) E of here earthquakes near Ector County
Glasscock County, TX 50 km (31 mi) W of here earthquakes near Glasscock County
Upton County, TX 65 km (41 mi) N of here earthquakes near Upton County
Howard County, TX 70 km (43 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Howard County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 19 km NW of Stanton, Texas
  2. 2.0 19 km NW of Stanton, Texas
  3. 1.9 22 km NNW of Midland, Texas
  4. 1.8 36 km NW of Stanton, Texas
  5. 2.5 20 km N of Stanton, Texas
  6. 1.6 17 km NNW of Stanton, Texas
  7. 1.9 western Texas
  8. 3.2 28 km SW of Garden City, Texas
  9. 1.9 13 km NNE of Midland, Texas
  10. 2.0 western Texas
  11. 2.5 western Texas
  12. 2.5 18 km N of Stanton, Texas
  13. 1.5 20 km N of Stanton, Texas
  14. 1.6 11 km WNW of Stanton, Texas
  15. 1.5 15 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 1,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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