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M 1.6ml

9 km NE of Balmorhea, Texas

· 2.5 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Reeves County 30 kmJeff Davis County 68 kmWard County 75 kmLoving County 90 kmCulberson County 93 kmPecos County 96 kmWinkler County 105 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
2.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Reeves County, 30 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 521 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 31.0440, -103.6720. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Reeves County, TX 30 km (18 mi) S of here earthquakes near Reeves County
Jeff Davis County, TX 68 km (42 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Jeff Davis County
Ward County, TX 75 km (47 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Ward County
Loving County, TX 90 km (56 mi) S of here earthquakes near Loving County
Culberson County, TX 93 km (58 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Culberson County
Pecos County, TX 96 km (60 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Pecos 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. 1.7 5 km NE of Balmorhea, Texas
  2. 1.6 14 km ENE of Balmorhea, Texas
  3. 2.3 7 km NNE of Balmorhea, Texas
  4. 1.5 7 km NNE of Balmorhea, Texas
  5. 2.0 10 km ENE of Balmorhea, Texas
  6. 1.8 7 km NNE of Balmorhea, Texas
  7. 1.7 22 km SSW of Lindsay, Texas
  8. 1.6 14 km E of Balmorhea, Texas
  9. 1.6 13 km S of Lindsay, Texas
  10. 1.6 8 km NE of Toyah, Texas
  11. 3.1 8 km NE of Balmorhea, Texas
  12. 1.8 12 km ESE of Balmorhea, Texas
  13. 1.7 7 km NE of Toyah, Texas
  14. 1.7 11 km S of Lindsay, Texas
  15. 1.9 14 km NNE of Balmorhea, 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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