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M 3.8ml

46 km W of Mentone, Texas

· 5.4 km deep · released about 7.6 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Culberson County 49 kmLoving County 54 kmReeves County 55 kmEddy County 89 kmWard County 95 kmWinkler County 100 kmJeff Davis County 118 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 3.8 (ml)
Depth
5.4 km below the surface
Felt
4 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
green
Nearest
Culberson County, 49 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 589 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 4 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 7.6 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 22,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 710× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.8 about 7.6 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 16× 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 31.6790, -104.0930. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Culberson County, TX 49 km (30 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Culberson County
Loving County, TX 54 km (33 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Loving County
Reeves County, TX 55 km (34 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Reeves County
Eddy County, NM 89 km (55 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Eddy County
Ward County, TX 95 km (59 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Ward County
Winkler County, TX 100 km (62 mi) W of here earthquakes near Winkler 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. 1.7 54 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  2. 1.5 54 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  3. 1.6 58 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  4. 1.8 55 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  5. 2.1 54 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  6. 1.6 50 km SSE of Whites City, New Mexico
  7. 2.6 55 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  8. 1.6 55 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  9. 1.5 63 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  10. 2.0 41 km NW of Toyah, Texas
  11. 1.8 46 km NW of Toyah, Texas
  12. 1.7 49 km W of Mentone, Texas
  13. 1.8 58 km NW of Toyah, Texas
  14. 1.9 61 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  15. 2.4 7 km NE of Toyah, 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 5.4 on 2022-11-16 — it released about 250 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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