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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

22 km SW of Jal, New Mexico

· 7.9 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Loving County 24 kmWinkler County 31 kmWard County 55 kmEctor County 77 kmAndrews County 77 kmReeves County 80 kmLea County 93 kmCrane County 101 kmEddy County 106 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
7.9 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Loving County, 24 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 614 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 7.6 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.6 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 31.9600, -103.3500. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Loving County, TX 24 km (15 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Loving County
Winkler County, TX 31 km (19 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Winkler County
Ward County, TX 55 km (34 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Ward County
Ector County, TX 77 km (48 mi) W of here earthquakes near Ector County
Andrews County, TX 77 km (48 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Andrews County
Reeves County, TX 80 km (50 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Reeves County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 13 km SSW of Jal, New Mexico
  2. 1.8 13 km SSW of Jal, New Mexico
  3. 1.8 13 km SSW of Jal, New Mexico
  4. 2.7 13 km SSW of Jal, New Mexico
  5. 1.8 13 km SSW of Jal, New Mexico
  6. 1.9 13 km SSW of Jal, New Mexico
  7. 3.3 13 km SSW of Jal, New Mexico
  8. 1.7 19 km WNW of Mentone, Texas
  9. 2.2 13 km SSW of Jal, New Mexico
  10. 2.1 18 km WNW of Mentone, Texas
  11. 3.1 18 km WNW of Mentone, Texas
  12. 2.7 12 km SSW of Jal, New Mexico
  13. 1.8 18 km WNW of Mentone, Texas
  14. 2.1 12 km SSW of Jal, New Mexico
  15. 2.2 12 km SSW of Jal, 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 4.0 on 2021-07-19 — it released about 4,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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