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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

23 km NW of Westbrook, Texas

· 8.9 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Scurry County 33 kmMitchell County 34 kmBorden County 35 kmHoward County 36 kmNolan County 74 kmGarza County 74 kmFisher County 75 kmDawson County 77 kmSterling County 78 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
8.9 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Scurry County, 33 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 496 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 11 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 89× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 32.5290, -101.1620. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Scurry County, TX 33 km (21 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Scurry County
Mitchell County, TX 34 km (21 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Mitchell County
Borden County, TX 35 km (22 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Borden County
Howard County, TX 36 km (22 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Howard County
Nolan County, TX 74 km (46 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Nolan County
Garza County, TX 74 km (46 mi) S of here earthquakes near Garza County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 23 km E of Forsan, Texas
  2. 1.8 18 km S of Westbrook, Texas
  3. 1.9 9 km NNW of Forsan, Texas
  4. 1.7 18 km SSE of Westbrook, Texas
  5. 1.5 24 km SW of Snyder, Texas
  6. 1.6 26 km S of Westbrook, Texas
  7. 1.7 20 km S of Westbrook, Texas
  8. 1.7 23 km S of Westbrook, Texas
  9. 1.8 23 km S of Westbrook, Texas
  10. 1.7 25 km S of Westbrook, Texas
  11. 1.8 26 km S of Westbrook, Texas
  12. 1.6 9 km E of Coahoma, Texas
  13. 2.5 9 km ENE of Coahoma, Texas
  14. 2.0 27 km S of Westbrook, Texas
  15. 2.0 18 km S of Westbrook, 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 4.5 on 2024-07-27 — it released about 16,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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