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M 2.8ml

15 km NNW of Snyder, Texas

· 6.4 km deep · released about 480 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Scurry County 13 kmKent County 43 kmBorden County 44 kmGarza County 48 kmFisher County 55 kmMitchell County 60 kmHoward County 74 kmStonewall County 78 kmNolan County 79 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 2.8 (ml)
Depth
6.4 km below the surface
Felt
4 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Scurry County, 13 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 943 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 4 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 480 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 32,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 22,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.8 about 480 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 32.8430, -100.9830. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Scurry County, TX 13 km (8 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Scurry County
Kent County, TX 43 km (27 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Kent County
Borden County, TX 44 km (27 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Borden County
Garza County, TX 48 km (30 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Garza County
Fisher County, TX 55 km (34 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Fisher County
Mitchell County, TX 60 km (37 mi) N of here earthquakes near Mitchell County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 16 km NE of Hermleigh, Texas
  2. 2.1 16 km NE of Hermleigh, Texas
  3. 2.0 18 km N of Snyder, Texas
  4. 1.5 19 km N of Snyder, Texas
  5. 2.6 19 km N of Snyder, Texas
  6. 2.1 18 km N of Snyder, Texas
  7. 2.7 16 km NE of Hermleigh, Texas
  8. 1.8 17 km NE of Hermleigh, Texas
  9. 1.7 17 km NE of Hermleigh, Texas
  10. 2.9 17 km NE of Hermleigh, Texas
  11. 2.5 16 km NE of Hermleigh, Texas
  12. 2.4 17 km NE of Hermleigh, Texas
  13. 2.4 17 km NE of Hermleigh, Texas
  14. 1.7 18 km NE of Hermleigh, Texas
  15. 1.8 17 km NE of Hermleigh, 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 4.7 on 2023-02-16 — it released about 710 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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