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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5ml

7 km SW of Falls City, Texas

· 7.0 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Karnes County 21 kmWilson County 28 kmAtascosa County 46 kmLive Oak County 64 kmBee County 65 kmGoliad County 68 kmDeWitt County 70 kmBexar County 73 kmGuadalupe County 74 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
7.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Karnes County, 21 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 319 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 5.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 180× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.4 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 28.9240, -98.0630. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Karnes County, TX 21 km (13 mi) W of here earthquakes near Karnes County
Wilson County, TX 28 km (17 mi) S of here earthquakes near Wilson County
Atascosa County, TX 46 km (29 mi) E of here earthquakes near Atascosa County
Live Oak County, TX 64 km (40 mi) N of here earthquakes near Live Oak County
Bee County, TX 65 km (40 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Bee County
Goliad County, TX 68 km (42 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Goliad County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 12 km WSW of Falls City, Texas
  2. 1.7 14 km WSW of Falls City, Texas
  3. 1.7 12 km WSW of Falls City, Texas
  4. 1.7 12 km WSW of Falls City, Texas
  5. 1.7 12 km WSW of Falls City, Texas
  6. 1.5 18 km SSW of Nixon, Texas
  7. 1.5 21 km NE of Tilden, Texas
  8. 1.5 18 km WSW of Falls City, Texas
  9. 1.5 17 km WSW of Falls City, Texas
  10. 2.0 18 km WSW of Falls City, Texas
  11. 1.6 17 km WSW of Falls City, Texas
  12. 1.7 17 km SW of Poth, Texas
  13. 1.7 21 km ESE of Pleasanton, Texas
  14. 1.6 1 km ESE of Falls City, Texas
  15. 2.5 20 km ESE of Pleasanton, 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 4.1 on 2023-09-14 — it released about 7,900 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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