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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

15 km WNW of Pawnee, Texas

· 6.1 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Karnes County 38 kmLive Oak County 39 kmAtascosa County 43 kmBee County 51 kmWilson County 53 kmMcMullen County 54 kmGoliad County 71 kmDeWitt County 88 kmBexar County 91 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
6.1 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Karnes County, 38 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 384 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 28.6980, -98.1540. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Karnes County, TX 38 km (23 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Karnes County
Live Oak County, TX 39 km (24 mi) N of here earthquakes near Live Oak County
Atascosa County, TX 43 km (27 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Atascosa County
Bee County, TX 51 km (32 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Bee County
Wilson County, TX 53 km (33 mi) S of here earthquakes near Wilson County
McMullen County, TX 54 km (34 mi) NE of here earthquakes near McMullen County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 5 km ESE of Christine, Texas
  2. 1.6 5 km SE of Christine, Texas
  3. 1.5 4 km SE of Christine, Texas
  4. 1.8 4 km SE of Christine, Texas
  5. 2.0 5 km SE of Christine, Texas
  6. 1.8 5 km SE of Christine, Texas
  7. 1.8 5 km SE of Christine, Texas
  8. 2.2 5 km SE of Christine, Texas
  9. 1.9 4 km SE of Christine, Texas
  10. 2.1 15 km ENE of Falls City, Texas
  11. 1.6 15 km ENE of Falls City, Texas
  12. 2.1 5 km SE of Christine, Texas
  13. 1.5 5 km SE of Christine, Texas
  14. 1.5 5 km SE of Christine, Texas
  15. 1.6 5 km SE of Christine, 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 2024-02-17 — it released about 16,000 times the energy of this one.

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

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