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M 2.0ml

4 km SSE of Haslet, Texas

· 7.0 km deep · released about 30 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Tarrant County 19 kmDenton County 35 kmWise County 44 kmParker County 49 kmDallas County 54 kmJohnson County 62 kmHood County 74 kmCollin County 75 kmCooke County 78 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (ml)
Depth
7.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Tarrant County, 19 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1021 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 30 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 32× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 30 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 32.9400, -97.3220. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Tarrant County, TX 19 km (12 mi) N of here earthquakes near Tarrant County
Denton County, TX 35 km (22 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Denton County
Wise County, TX 44 km (27 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Wise County
Parker County, TX 49 km (30 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Parker County
Dallas County, TX 54 km (34 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Dallas County
Johnson County, TX 62 km (39 mi) N of here earthquakes near Johnson County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 6 km SSE of Farmers Branch, Texas
  2. 2.2 5 km S of Farmers Branch, Texas
  3. 1.7 1 km N of Justin, 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.

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