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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5ml

23 km N of Snyder, Texas

· 5.6 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Scurry County 21 kmKent County 31 kmGarza County 46 kmFisher County 51 kmBorden County 54 kmStonewall County 67 kmMitchell County 70 kmDickens County 77 kmNolan County 83 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
5.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Scurry County, 21 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 606 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 32.9320, -100.9040. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Scurry County, TX 21 km (13 mi) N of here earthquakes near Scurry County
Kent County, TX 31 km (19 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Kent County
Garza County, TX 46 km (29 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Garza County
Fisher County, TX 51 km (32 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Fisher County
Borden County, TX 54 km (34 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Borden County
Stonewall County, TX 67 km (41 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Stonewall 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. 2.0 16 km NE of Hermleigh, Texas
  2. 1.6 15 km NE of Hermleigh, Texas
  3. 1.7 15 km NNE of Hermleigh, Texas
  4. 1.8 19 km NNW of Snyder, Texas
  5. 2.1 15 km NE of Hermleigh, Texas
  6. 2.4 14 km NNE of Hermleigh, Texas
  7. 1.5 24 km NNW of Westbrook, Texas
  8. 1.7 23 km NNW of Westbrook, Texas
  9. 1.6 17 km N of Snyder, Texas
  10. 1.5 16 km NE of Hermleigh, Texas
  11. 2.2 8 km W of Rotan, Texas
  12. 1.9 15 km NE of Hermleigh, Texas
  13. 3.7 14 km NE of Hermleigh, Texas
  14. 2.1 12 km NE of Hermleigh, Texas
  15. 1.5 24 km SW of Snyder, 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 5.1 on 2024-07-26 — it released about 250,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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