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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5ml

11 km W of Forsan, Texas

· 8.8 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Howard County 23 kmGlasscock County 27 kmMartin County 50 kmSterling County 51 kmMitchell County 58 kmMidland County 58 kmBorden County 71 kmReagan County 81 kmDawson County 83 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
8.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Howard County, 23 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 356 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 5.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 180× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.4 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 32.1050, -101.4890. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Howard County, TX 23 km (14 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Howard County
Glasscock County, TX 27 km (16 mi) N of here earthquakes near Glasscock County
Martin County, TX 50 km (31 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Martin County
Sterling County, TX 51 km (32 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Sterling County
Mitchell County, TX 58 km (36 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Mitchell County
Midland County, TX 58 km (36 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Midland County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 11 km S of Forsan, Texas
  2. 1.5 13 km WSW of Stanton, Texas
  3. 1.6 13 km WSW of Stanton, Texas
  4. 1.7 13 km W of Stanton, Texas
  5. 1.8 13 km W of Stanton, Texas
  6. 2.2 4 km WSW of Westbrook, Texas
  7. 2.0 13 km W of Stanton, Texas
  8. 1.5 13 km W of Stanton, Texas
  9. 1.9 7 km WSW of Westbrook, Texas
  10. 2.2 16 km SE of Coahoma, Texas
  11. 1.8 10 km W of Forsan, Texas
  12. 1.9 15 km ENE of Midland, Texas
  13. 2.1 17 km NNE of Midland, Texas
  14. 1.5 20 km NW of Stanton, Texas
  15. 2.7 6 km WSW of Westbrook, 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 4.6 on 2021-12-28 — it released about 45,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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