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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.0ml

16 km NNW of Gardendale, Texas

· 9.1 km deep · released about 30 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Andrews County 24 kmEctor County 33 kmMartin County 50 kmMidland County 58 kmWinkler County 66 kmGaines County 67 kmDawson County 81 kmCrane County 82 kmWard County 94 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 2.0 (ml)
Depth
9.1 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Andrews County, 24 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 458 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 30 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 32× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 30 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 32.1560, -102.4640. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Andrews County, TX 24 km (15 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Andrews County
Ector County, TX 33 km (21 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Ector County
Martin County, TX 50 km (31 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Martin County
Midland County, TX 58 km (36 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Midland County
Winkler County, TX 66 km (41 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Winkler County
Gaines County, TX 67 km (42 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Gaines County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 19 km NW of Midland, Texas
  2. 2.6 19 km NW of Midland, Texas
  3. 1.6 31 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas
  4. 1.6 12 km NNW of Midland, Texas
  5. 1.9 12 km NNW of Midland, Texas
  6. 1.8 12 km NNW of Midland, Texas
  7. 2.7 12 km NNW of Midland, Texas
  8. 2.5 31 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas
  9. 1.6 19 km NE of Gardendale, Texas
  10. 2.4 19 km NW of Midland, Texas
  11. 2.0 12 km NNW of Midland, Texas
  12. 3.0 14 km W of Stanton, Texas
  13. 1.5 34 km ENE of McKinney Acres, Texas
  14. 1.5 34 km E of McKinney Acres, Texas
  15. 1.7 34 km E of McKinney Acres, 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 63,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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