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M 1.6ml

27 km S of Westbrook, Texas

· 2.5 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mitchell County 25 kmSterling County 30 kmHoward County 42 kmCoke County 48 kmGlasscock County 51 kmNolan County 65 kmScurry County 72 kmBorden County 79 kmMartin County 88 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
2.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mitchell County, 25 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 570 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 7.6 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.6 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 32.1080, -101.0620. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mitchell County, TX 25 km (16 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Mitchell County
Sterling County, TX 30 km (19 mi) N of here earthquakes near Sterling County
Howard County, TX 42 km (26 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Howard County
Coke County, TX 48 km (30 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Coke County
Glasscock County, TX 51 km (32 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Glasscock County
Nolan County, TX 65 km (40 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Nolan 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. 1.7 12 km NNW of Garden City, Texas
  2. 1.9 12 km W of Forsan, Texas
  3. 1.6 7 km WSW of Westbrook, Texas
  4. 1.8 19 km S of Westbrook, Texas
  5. 2.1 25 km SSW of Westbrook, Texas
  6. 1.7 7 km E of Coahoma, Texas
  7. 1.8 9 km E of Coahoma, Texas
  8. 1.5 26 km S of Westbrook, Texas
  9. 1.6 23 km E of Forsan, Texas
  10. 1.6 8 km ESE of Coahoma, Texas
  11. 2.0 24 km SSW of Westbrook, Texas
  12. 1.8 24 km SSW of Westbrook, Texas
  13. 2.2 24 km SSW of Westbrook, Texas
  14. 1.6 22 km S of Westbrook, Texas
  15. 2.1 6 km WSW of Westbrook, 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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