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M 2.8ml

2 km S of Falls City, Texas

· 7.1 km deep · released about 480 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Karnes County 17 kmWilson County 25 kmAtascosa County 51 kmDeWitt County 66 kmBee County 66 kmGoliad County 66 kmLive Oak County 68 kmGuadalupe County 70 kmBexar County 73 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.8 (ml)
Depth
7.1 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Karnes County, 17 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 452 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 2 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 28.9580, -98.0210. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Karnes County, TX 17 km (11 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Karnes County
Wilson County, TX 25 km (15 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Wilson County
Atascosa County, TX 51 km (31 mi) E of here earthquakes near Atascosa County
DeWitt County, TX 66 km (41 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near DeWitt County
Bee County, TX 66 km (41 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Bee County
Goliad County, TX 66 km (41 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Goliad 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. 1.6 21 km ENE of Falls City, Texas
  2. 2.0 21 km ENE of Falls City, Texas
  3. 2.7 21 km ENE of Falls City, Texas
  4. 1.7 20 km ENE of Falls City, Texas
  5. 1.8 15 km ESE of Pleasanton, Texas
  6. 1.5 20 km ENE of Falls City, Texas
  7. 1.5 22 km SSW of Nixon, Texas
  8. 1.6 21 km SSW of Nixon, Texas
  9. 1.7 21 km ENE of Falls City, Texas
  10. 1.5 21 km ENE of Falls City, Texas
  11. 1.5 21 km ENE of Falls City, Texas
  12. 2.2 21 km ENE of Falls City, Texas
  13. 1.6 19 km ENE of Falls City, Texas
  14. 1.6 21 km SSW of Nixon, Texas
  15. 1.7 20 km ENE of Falls City, 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 4.5 on 2024-02-17 — it released about 350 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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