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M 1.9ml

22 km W of Garden City, Texas

· 6.7 km deep · released about 21 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Glasscock County 18 kmMidland County 28 kmMartin County 55 kmHoward County 56 kmReagan County 57 kmSterling County 62 kmUpton County 64 kmEctor County 78 kmCrane County 88 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.9 (ml)
Depth
6.7 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Glasscock County, 18 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 803 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 21 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 710,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 500,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 45× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 21 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 31.8610, -101.7140. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Glasscock County, TX 18 km (11 mi) W of here earthquakes near Glasscock County
Midland County, TX 28 km (17 mi) E of here earthquakes near Midland County
Martin County, TX 55 km (34 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Martin County
Howard County, TX 56 km (35 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Howard County
Reagan County, TX 57 km (36 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Reagan County
Sterling County, TX 62 km (39 mi) W of here earthquakes near Sterling County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 28 km SW of Garden City, Texas
  2. 3.1 28 km SW of Garden City, Texas
  3. 1.5 8 km NW of Stanton, Texas
  4. 1.7 9 km W of Forsan, Texas
  5. 2.0 11 km W of Forsan, Texas
  6. 1.5 28 km SSE of Midland, Texas
  7. 2.1 5 km SSE of Midland, Texas
  8. 1.5 29 km SSE of Midland, Texas
  9. 2.0 13 km SSE of Stanton, Texas
  10. 2.0 24 km W of Garden City, Texas
  11. 1.7 12 km NNW of Garden City, Texas
  12. 1.9 12 km W of Forsan, Texas
  13. 1.7 26 km SW of Garden City, Texas
  14. 3.3 28 km SW of Garden City, Texas
  15. 1.5 23 km W of Garden 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 4.6 on 2021-12-28 — it released about 11,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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