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M 2.6ml

3 km E of Falls City, Texas

· 8.6 km deep · released about 240 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Karnes County 15 kmWilson County 24 kmAtascosa County 54 kmDeWitt County 62 kmGoliad County 65 kmBee County 67 kmGuadalupe County 67 kmLive Oak County 71 kmGonzales County 72 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.6 (ml)
Depth
8.6 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Karnes County, 15 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. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 240 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 63,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 45,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 240 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 28.9790, -97.9870. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Karnes County, TX 15 km (9 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Karnes County
Wilson County, TX 24 km (15 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Wilson County
Atascosa County, TX 54 km (34 mi) E of here earthquakes near Atascosa County
DeWitt County, TX 62 km (38 mi) W of here earthquakes near DeWitt County
Goliad County, TX 65 km (40 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Goliad County
Bee County, TX 67 km (42 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Bee 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. 1.6 17 km WSW of Falls City, Texas
  2. 1.6 18 km WSW of Falls City, Texas
  3. 2.1 17 km WSW of Falls City, Texas
  4. 1.9 17 km WSW of Falls City, Texas
  5. 2.3 2 km WNW of Nordheim, Texas
  6. 1.9 17 km WSW of Falls City, Texas
  7. 1.7 17 km WSW of Falls City, Texas
  8. 2.0 3 km WNW of Nordheim, Texas
  9. 1.7 18 km SSE of Stockdale, Texas
  10. 2.3 7 km SSE of Smiley, Texas
  11. 1.5 19 km WSW of Falls City, Texas
  12. 1.5 16 km SSE of Stockdale, Texas
  13. 1.8 18 km SE of Stockdale, Texas
  14. 1.7 17 km SE of Stockdale, Texas
  15. 2.7 18 km SE of Stockdale, 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 710 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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