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M 1.6ml

17 km WSW of Shiner, Texas

· 8.3 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Gonzales County 20 kmDeWitt County 30 kmLavaca County 39 kmCaldwell County 61 kmGuadalupe County 65 kmFayette County 71 kmKarnes County 71 kmVictoria County 71 kmWilson County 76 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
8.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Gonzales County, 20 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 375 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 29.3510, -97.3290. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Gonzales County, TX 20 km (12 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Gonzales County
DeWitt County, TX 30 km (19 mi) N of here earthquakes near DeWitt County
Lavaca County, TX 39 km (25 mi) W of here earthquakes near Lavaca County
Caldwell County, TX 61 km (38 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Caldwell County
Guadalupe County, TX 65 km (41 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Guadalupe County
Fayette County, TX 71 km (44 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Fayette County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 13 km SSE of Gonzales, Texas
  2. 2.0 13 km SSE of Gonzales, Texas
  3. 2.0 14 km SSE of Gonzales, Texas
  4. 1.5 14 km S of Gonzales, Texas
  5. 1.8 13 km SSE of Gonzales, Texas
  6. 1.5 14 km SSE of Gonzales, Texas
  7. 1.5 14 km SSE of Gonzales, Texas
  8. 1.5 13 km SSE of Gonzales, Texas
  9. 1.6 14 km SSE of Gonzales, Texas
  10. 2.0 13 km SSE of Gonzales, Texas
  11. 2.2 13 km SSE of Gonzales, Texas
  12. 2.5 13 km SSE of Gonzales, Texas
  13. 2.0 14 km SSE of Gonzales, Texas
  14. 1.5 13 km S of Gonzales, Texas
  15. 1.7 13 km SSE of Gonzales, 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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