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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5ml

59 km NW of Toyah, Texas

· 6.2 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Culberson County 33 kmReeves County 66 kmLoving County 71 kmEddy County 90 kmHudspeth County 107 kmWard County 112 kmJeff Davis County 114 kmWinkler County 117 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
6.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Culberson County, 33 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 685 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 31.6490, -104.2770. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Culberson County, TX 33 km (20 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Culberson County
Reeves County, TX 66 km (41 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Reeves County
Loving County, TX 71 km (44 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Loving County
Eddy County, NM 90 km (56 mi) S of here earthquakes near Eddy County
Hudspeth County, TX 107 km (66 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Hudspeth County
Ward County, TX 112 km (70 mi) W of here earthquakes near Ward 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. 1.9 western Texas
  2. 3.4 56 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  3. 2.0 57 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  4. 2.2 57 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  5. 1.8 59 km NW of Toyah, Texas
  6. 1.8 55 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  7. 2.5 58 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  8. 1.6 56 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  9. 1.8 59 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  10. 1.6 60 km SSW of Whites City, New Mexico
  11. 1.7 58 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  12. 2.0 57 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  13. 1.8 63 km SSW of Whites City, New Mexico
  14. 2.0 36 km NW of Toyah, Texas
  15. 2.4 62 km SSW of Whites City, New Mexico

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 5.4 on 2022-11-16 — it released about 710,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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