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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

31 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas

· 8.4 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Martin County 12 kmDawson County 38 kmHoward County 56 kmAndrews County 59 kmBorden County 66 kmMidland County 66 kmGaines County 68 kmGlasscock County 76 kmEctor County 78 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
8.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Martin County, 12 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 419 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 32.4090, -102.0230. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Martin County, TX 12 km (8 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Martin County
Dawson County, TX 38 km (23 mi) S of here earthquakes near Dawson County
Howard County, TX 56 km (35 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Howard County
Andrews County, TX 59 km (37 mi) E of here earthquakes near Andrews County
Borden County, TX 66 km (41 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Borden County
Midland County, TX 66 km (41 mi) N of here earthquakes near Midland County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.4 14 km NNW of Midland, Texas
  2. 1.6 34 km SSW of Los Ybanez, Texas
  3. 1.6 17 km SSE of Ackerly, Texas
  4. 2.5 34 km SSW of Los Ybanez, Texas
  5. 1.6 9 km ENE of Stanton, Texas
  6. 1.5 19 km NW of Stanton, Texas
  7. 1.6 26 km WSW of Ackerly, Texas
  8. 1.5 9 km E of Midland, Texas
  9. 2.6 13 km NNW of Midland, Texas
  10. 2.1 13 km NNW of Midland, Texas
  11. 1.7 14 km NNW of Midland, Texas
  12. 2.7 14 km NNW of Midland, Texas
  13. 2.3 19 km NW of Stanton, Texas
  14. 2.8 11 km NNE of Midland, Texas
  15. 1.8 11 km NNE of Midland, 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 250,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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