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M 1.5ml

20 km WSW of Garden City, Texas

· 6.8 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Glasscock County 18 kmMidland County 30 kmReagan County 49 kmUpton County 59 kmSterling County 60 kmHoward County 62 kmMartin County 64 kmEctor County 82 kmIrion County 86 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
6.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Glasscock County, 18 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 572 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 31.7880, -101.6840. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Glasscock County, TX 18 km (11 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Glasscock County
Midland County, TX 30 km (19 mi) E of here earthquakes near Midland County
Reagan County, TX 49 km (30 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Reagan County
Upton County, TX 59 km (37 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Upton County
Sterling County, TX 60 km (37 mi) W of here earthquakes near Sterling County
Howard County, TX 62 km (38 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Howard County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 36 km SSE of Midland, Texas
  2. 1.7 10 km S of Forsan, Texas
  3. 1.5 13 km W of Stanton, Texas
  4. 1.5 13 km ENE of Stanton, Texas
  5. 1.5 24 km SW of Garden City, Texas
  6. 1.9 2 km NNW of Garden City, Texas
  7. 1.5 12 km W of Stanton, Texas
  8. 1.9 1 km NNW of Garden City, Texas
  9. 1.6 12 km W of Stanton, Texas
  10. 1.5 13 km W of Stanton, Texas
  11. 1.6 12 km WSW of Stanton, Texas
  12. 2.2 13 km ESE of Stanton, Texas
  13. 2.4 12 km W of Stanton, Texas
  14. 1.5 13 km W of Stanton, Texas
  15. 1.8 12 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.

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