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M 1.5ml

27 km SSE of Midland, Texas

· 5.1 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Midland County 8 kmGlasscock County 39 kmUpton County 49 kmMartin County 59 kmEctor County 59 kmReagan County 60 kmCrane County 67 kmHoward County 74 kmSterling County 82 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
5.1 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Midland County, 8 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 807 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 5.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 180× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.4 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 31.7830, -101.9240. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Midland County, TX 8 km (5 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Midland County
Glasscock County, TX 39 km (24 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Glasscock County
Upton County, TX 49 km (30 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Upton County
Martin County, TX 59 km (36 mi) S of here earthquakes near Martin County
Ector County, TX 59 km (37 mi) E of here earthquakes near Ector County
Reagan County, TX 60 km (37 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Reagan County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 14 km SSE of Stanton, Texas
  2. 2.2 23 km W of Garden City, Texas
  3. 1.7 25 km SSE of Midland, Texas
  4. 1.5 22 km WNW of Stanton, Texas
  5. 2.6 22 km WNW of Stanton, Texas
  6. 1.5 20 km NW of Midland, Texas
  7. 1.5 18 km NW of Midland, Texas
  8. 1.8 20 km NW of Midland, Texas
  9. 1.7 19 km NW of Midland, Texas
  10. 1.6 28 km SW of Garden City, Texas
  11. 3.1 28 km SW of Garden City, Texas
  12. 1.9 20 km NE of Gardendale, Texas
  13. 1.5 8 km NW of Stanton, Texas
  14. 1.5 28 km SSE of Midland, Texas
  15. 2.1 5 km SSE of Midland, 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 350,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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