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M 1.6ml

15 km N of Crane, Texas

· 3.3 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Crane County 18 kmUpton County 37 kmEctor County 40 kmMidland County 46 kmWard County 71 kmWinkler County 73 kmReagan County 82 kmGlasscock County 87 kmAndrews County 90 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
3.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Crane County, 18 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 394 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 31.5410, -102.3610. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Crane County, TX 18 km (11 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Crane County
Upton County, TX 37 km (23 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Upton County
Ector County, TX 40 km (25 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Ector County
Midland County, TX 46 km (28 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Midland County
Ward County, TX 71 km (44 mi) E of here earthquakes near Ward County
Winkler County, TX 73 km (46 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Winkler County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.4 8 km SE of Gardendale, Texas
  2. 2.4 7 km SE of Gardendale, Texas
  3. 2.5 29 km SSE of Midland, Texas
  4. 1.6 29 km SSE of Midland, Texas
  5. 1.5 35 km SSE of Midland, Texas
  6. 1.5 7 km NNW of Odessa, Texas
  7. 1.5 30 km SSE of Midland, Texas
  8. 1.5 23 km SE of Odessa, Texas
  9. 1.6 8 km SE of Gardendale, Texas
  10. 1.7 9 km S of Midland, Texas
  11. 1.5 35 km SE of Odessa, Texas
  12. 1.6 25 km SSE of Midland, Texas
  13. 1.6 24 km SSE of Midland, Texas
  14. 1.5 10 km S of Midland, Texas
  15. 1.7 26 km NE of Crane, 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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