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M 4.1ml(texnet)

20 km N of Stanton, Texas

· 7.0 km deep · released about 21 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 4.1 (ml(texnet))
Depth
7.0 km below the surface
Felt
15 reports · strongest reported intensity V
Measured shaking
intensity V (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
green
Nearest
Martin County, 13 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 987 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon. 15 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 21 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 7,900× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 350× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 250× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.1 about 21 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 45× 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 32.3090, -101.8270. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Martin County, TX 13 km (8 mi) E of here earthquakes near Martin County
Howard County, TX 36 km (23 mi) W of here earthquakes near Howard County
Dawson County, TX 50 km (31 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Dawson County
Glasscock County, TX 57 km (35 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Glasscock County
Midland County, TX 57 km (36 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Midland County
Borden County, TX 60 km (37 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Borden County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 19 km NW of Stanton, Texas
  2. 2.2 11 km W of Forsan, 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 31 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas
  7. 1.6 17 km NNW of Stanton, Texas
  8. 1.7 31 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas
  9. 1.9 western Texas
  10. 1.9 13 km NNE of Midland, Texas
  11. 2.0 western Texas
  12. 2.5 western Texas
  13. 2.5 18 km N of Stanton, Texas
  14. 3.0 31 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas
  15. 1.5 20 km N of Stanton, 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 45 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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