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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.0ml

23 km SW of Bandera, Texas

· 6.3 km deep · released about 30 lb of TNT

10 km30 km60 km120 km N Bandera County 23 kmMedina County 24 kmKerr County 58 kmUvalde County 58 kmReal County 65 kmKendall County 66 kmBexar County 69 kmFrio County 77 kmGillespie County 90 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (ml)
Depth
6.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Bandera County, 23 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 376 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 29.5530, -99.2180. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Bandera County, TX 23 km (14 mi) S of here earthquakes near Bandera County
Medina County, TX 24 km (15 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Medina County
Kerr County, TX 58 km (36 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Kerr County
Uvalde County, TX 58 km (36 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Uvalde County
Real County, TX 65 km (40 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Real County
Kendall County, TX 66 km (41 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Kendall County

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

Aftershocks so far

No further earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.

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.

On USGS

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