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M 4.8ml

26 km SW of Ackerly, Texas

· 6.8 km deep · released about 240 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Martin County 7 kmDawson County 41 kmHoward County 46 kmBorden County 61 kmMidland County 62 kmAndrews County 67 kmGlasscock County 68 kmGaines County 78 kmEctor County 81 km
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When
Magnitude
M 4.8 (ml)
Depth
6.8 km below the surface
Felt
964 reports · strongest reported intensity VI
Measured shaking
intensity V (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
green
Nearest
Martin County, 7 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 72 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon. 964 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 240 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 710× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 32× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 22× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.8 about 240 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 500× 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 32.3700, -101.9260. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Martin County, TX 7 km (5 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Martin County
Dawson County, TX 41 km (26 mi) S of here earthquakes near Dawson County
Howard County, TX 46 km (29 mi) W of here earthquakes near Howard County
Borden County, TX 61 km (38 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Borden County
Midland County, TX 62 km (39 mi) N of here earthquakes near Midland County
Andrews County, TX 67 km (42 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

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

  1. 1.6 14 km NNW of Stanton, Texas
  2. 1.7 19 km NW of Midland, Texas
  3. 3.1 19 km NW of Midland, Texas
  4. 2.7 35 km SSW of Los Ybanez, Texas
  5. 2.4 36 km SSW of Los Ybanez, Texas
  6. 1.6 39 km ENE of McKinney Acres, Texas
  7. 2.2 4 km N of Stanton, Texas
  8. 1.5 31 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas
  9. 1.7 15 km NW of Stanton, Texas
  10. 2.8 3 km N of Stanton, Texas
  11. 1.7 39 km E of McKinney Acres, Texas
  12. 1.8 17 km NW of Midland, Texas
  13. 2.1 31 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas
  14. 2.3 9 km SSW of Big Spring, Texas
  15. 1.8 14 km WSW of Stanton, 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 4 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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