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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.0ml

10 km NW of Barstow, Texas

· 8.5 km deep · released about 30 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Reeves County 32 kmWard County 35 kmLoving County 37 kmWinkler County 53 kmCrane County 94 kmEctor County 96 kmCulberson County 100 kmPecos County 110 kmAndrews County 118 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (ml)
Depth
8.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Reeves County, 32 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 366 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 31.5200, -103.4770. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Reeves County, TX 32 km (20 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Reeves County
Ward County, TX 35 km (22 mi) W of here earthquakes near Ward County
Loving County, TX 37 km (23 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Loving County
Winkler County, TX 53 km (33 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Winkler County
Crane County, TX 94 km (59 mi) W of here earthquakes near Crane County
Ector County, TX 96 km (60 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Ector County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 26 km SW of Jal, New Mexico
  2. 1.5 26 km SW of Jal, New Mexico
  3. 1.6 17 km SSE of Lindsay, Texas
  4. 1.9 25 km SW of Jal, New Mexico
  5. 1.8 25 km SW of Jal, New Mexico
  6. 1.5 18 km SSW of Lindsay, Texas
  7. 1.6 35 km WSW of Mentone, Texas
  8. 1.9 27 km SW of Jal, New Mexico
  9. 1.9 2 km E of Lindsay, Texas
  10. 1.7 5 km SE of Lindsay, Texas
  11. 1.6 13 km SSE of Lindsay, Texas
  12. 1.9 13 km SSE of Lindsay, Texas
  13. 1.7 17 km NNW of Toyah, Texas
  14. 1.5 9 km N of Toyah, Texas
  15. 1.7 11 km NNE of Toyah, 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 2023-11-08 — it released about 63,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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