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M 4.5ml

13 km NNE of Hermleigh, Texas

· 3.4 km deep · released about 85 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Scurry County 20 kmFisher County 27 kmKent County 49 kmMitchell County 53 kmNolan County 55 kmStonewall County 64 kmBorden County 70 kmGarza County 75 kmJones County 77 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 4.5 (ml)
Depth
3.4 km below the surface
Felt
115 reports · strongest reported intensity VII
Measured shaking
intensity V (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
green
Nearest
Scurry County, 20 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 719 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon. 115 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 85 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 2,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 89× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 63× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.5 about 85 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 180× more

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 32.7440, -100.6960. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Scurry County, TX 20 km (13 mi) E of here earthquakes near Scurry County
Fisher County, TX 27 km (17 mi) W of here earthquakes near Fisher County
Kent County, TX 49 km (31 mi) S of here earthquakes near Kent County
Mitchell County, TX 53 km (33 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Mitchell County
Nolan County, TX 55 km (34 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Nolan County
Stonewall County, TX 64 km (40 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Stonewall County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 18 km NE of Hermleigh, Texas
  2. 1.5 16 km NNE of Hermleigh, Texas
  3. 1.5 17 km NE of Hermleigh, Texas
  4. 2.8 16 km SW of Rotan, Texas
  5. 1.9 17 km NNE of Hermleigh, Texas
  6. 1.5 15 km NNE of Hermleigh, Texas
  7. 3.6 16 km NNE of Hermleigh, Texas
  8. 1.7 7 km NE of Hermleigh, Texas
  9. 2.0 14 km NE of Hermleigh, Texas
  10. 3.1 17 km NE of Hermleigh, Texas
  11. 2.1 15 km NNE of Hermleigh, Texas
  12. 2.1 17 km NNE of Hermleigh, Texas
  13. 1.7 18 km NNE of Hermleigh, Texas
  14. 1.5 16 km NNE of Hermleigh, Texas
  15. 1.7 16 km NNE of Hermleigh, 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 5.1 on 2024-07-26 — it released about 7.9 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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