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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

5 km SE of Christine, Texas

· 8.5 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Atascosa County 17 kmMcMullen County 43 kmLive Oak County 56 kmWilson County 59 kmKarnes County 62 kmFrio County 64 kmLa Salle County 77 kmBexar County 77 kmBee County 80 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
8.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Atascosa County, 17 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 354 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 28.7570, -98.4610. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Atascosa County, TX 17 km (10 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Atascosa County
McMullen County, TX 43 km (27 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near McMullen County
Live Oak County, TX 56 km (35 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Live Oak County
Wilson County, TX 59 km (37 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Wilson County
Karnes County, TX 62 km (38 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Karnes County
Frio County, TX 64 km (40 mi) E of here earthquakes near Frio County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 21 km E of Dilley, Texas
  2. 1.5 21 km E of Dilley, Texas
  3. 3.5 23 km E of Dilley, Texas
  4. 1.6 21 km SW of Charlotte, Texas
  5. 1.6 5 km SE of Christine, Texas
  6. 1.6 22 km W of Pawnee, Texas
  7. 1.7 11 km WSW of Kenedy, Texas
  8. 1.6 21 km SW of Charlotte, Texas
  9. 1.8 19 km SW of Charlotte, Texas
  10. 1.5 21 km W of Pawnee, Texas
  11. 2.0 12 km SW of Poth, Texas
  12. 3.0 12 km SW of Poth, Texas
  13. 1.9 13 km SW of Poth, Texas
  14. 1.5 12 km SW of Poth, Texas
  15. 1.6 12 km SW of Poth, 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 22,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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