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M 2.3ml

6 km SW of Huxley, Texas

· 15 km deep · released about 85 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Shelby County 21 kmSabine Parish 40 kmDe Soto Parish 42 kmSabine County 43 kmSan Augustine County 44 kmPanola County 60 kmNacogdoches County 66 kmRed River Parish 69 kmNatchitoches Parish 81 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (ml)
Depth
15 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Shelby County, 21 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 958 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 85 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 130,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 11× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 85 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 31.7240, -93.9350. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Shelby County, TX 21 km (13 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Shelby County
Sabine Parish, LA 40 km (25 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Sabine Parish
De Soto Parish, LA 42 km (26 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near De Soto Parish
Sabine County, TX 43 km (27 mi) N of here earthquakes near Sabine County
San Augustine County, TX 44 km (27 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near San Augustine County
Panola County, TX 60 km (37 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Panola County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.7 9 km NE of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana
  2. 2.1 14 km ESE of Mansfield, Louisiana
  3. 2.1 16 km W of Coushatta, Louisiana
  4. 1.9 15 km E of Mansfield, Louisiana
  5. 2.4 17 km ESE of Mansfield, Louisiana
  6. 3.2 5 km WSW of Huxley, Texas
  7. 3.0 8 km W of Huxley, Texas
  8. 2.4 9 km WNW of Huxley, Texas
  9. 2.4 10 km W of Huxley, 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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