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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5ml

28 km NE of Mentone, Texas

· 8.2 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Loving County 15 kmWinkler County 35 kmWard County 53 kmReeves County 72 kmEctor County 83 kmAndrews County 86 kmLea County 99 kmCrane County 103 kmEddy County 104 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 1.5 (ml)
Depth
8.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Loving County, 15 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 783 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 31.9080, -103.4190. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Loving County, TX 15 km (9 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Loving County
Winkler County, TX 35 km (22 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Winkler County
Ward County, TX 53 km (33 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Ward County
Reeves County, TX 72 km (45 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Reeves County
Ector County, TX 83 km (52 mi) W of here earthquakes near Ector County
Andrews County, TX 86 km (53 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Andrews County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 32 km SE of Malaga, New Mexico
  2. 1.6 12 km NNW of Mentone, Texas
  3. 1.5 11 km W of Pyote, Texas
  4. 2.0 22 km NNE of Mentone, Texas
  5. 1.6 37 km ESE of Malaga, New Mexico
  6. 1.7 22 km NNE of Mentone, Texas
  7. 1.8 34 km NNW of Mentone, Texas
  8. 1.6 34 km NNW of Mentone, Texas
  9. 1.6 34 km NNW of Mentone, Texas
  10. 1.5 34 km NNW of Mentone, Texas
  11. 2.0 21 km NNE of Mentone, Texas
  12. 1.5 34 km NNW of Mentone, Texas
  13. 2.2 34 km NNW of Mentone, Texas
  14. 2.2 21 km NNE of Mentone, Texas
  15. 1.7 21 km NNE of Mentone, 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 4.0 on 2021-07-19 — it released about 5,600 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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