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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.1ml

16 km NW of Stanton, Texas

· 5.8 km deep · released about 1,300 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Martin County 10 kmHoward County 45 kmMidland County 47 kmGlasscock County 55 kmDawson County 57 kmAndrews County 69 kmBorden County 72 kmEctor County 72 kmGaines County 88 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 3.1 (ml)
Depth
5.8 km below the surface
Felt
3 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Martin County, 10 km NNW
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. 3 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,300 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 250,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 11,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 7,900× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.1 about 1,300 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.4× 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 32.2330, -101.9130. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Martin County, TX 10 km (6 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Martin County
Howard County, TX 45 km (28 mi) W of here earthquakes near Howard County
Midland County, TX 47 km (29 mi) N of here earthquakes near Midland County
Glasscock County, TX 55 km (34 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Glasscock County
Dawson County, TX 57 km (35 mi) S of here earthquakes near Dawson County
Andrews County, TX 69 km (43 mi) E of here earthquakes near Andrews County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 39 km ENE of McKinney Acres, Texas
  2. 1.5 35 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas
  3. 2.2 10 km W of Forsan, Texas
  4. 1.6 15 km SSE of Stanton, Texas
  5. 1.6 15 km SSE of Stanton, Texas
  6. 1.5 20 km NNE of Stanton, Texas
  7. 1.5 30 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas
  8. 1.6 35 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas
  9. 1.7 5 km SSE of Gardendale, Texas
  10. 2.7 10 km W of Forsan, Texas
  11. 1.6 35 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas
  12. 1.7 34 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas
  13. 3.0 35 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas
  14. 1.9 10 km W of Forsan, Texas
  15. 2.0 11 km W of Forsan, 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 5.2 on 2022-12-16 — it released about 1,400 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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