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M 3.3ml

33 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas

· 8.8 km deep · released about 1.3 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Martin County 13 kmDawson County 38 kmAndrews County 57 kmHoward County 58 kmMidland County 66 kmGaines County 67 kmBorden County 67 kmEctor County 76 kmGlasscock County 77 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 3.3 (ml)
Depth
8.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Martin County, 13 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 912 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1.3 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 130,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 5,600× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 4,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.3 about 1.3 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2.8× 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 32.4050, -102.0400. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Martin County, TX 13 km (8 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Martin County
Dawson County, TX 38 km (24 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Dawson County
Andrews County, TX 57 km (36 mi) E of here earthquakes near Andrews County
Howard County, TX 58 km (36 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Howard County
Midland County, TX 66 km (41 mi) N of here earthquakes near Midland County
Gaines County, TX 67 km (42 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Gaines County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 32 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas
  2. 1.6 21 km N of Stanton, Texas
  3. 1.6 3 km S of Midland, Texas
  4. 2.2 32 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas
  5. 2.3 36 km SSW of Los Ybanez, Texas
  6. 1.7 19 km NW of Stanton, Texas
  7. 1.8 36 km E of McKinney Acres, Texas
  8. 1.6 37 km NW of Stanton, Texas
  9. 2.2 19 km NW of Stanton, Texas
  10. 1.6 34 km ENE of McKinney Acres, Texas
  11. 3.8 37 km SSW of Los Ybanez, Texas
  12. 1.5 33 km ENE of McKinney Acres, Texas
  13. 1.6 37 km NW of Stanton, Texas
  14. 1.6 19 km SE of Ackerly, Texas
  15. 2.2 32 km WSW of Ackerly, 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 710 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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