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M 4.3ml

5 km WSW of Westbrook, Texas

· 5.3 km deep · released about 43 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mitchell County 14 kmHoward County 35 kmScurry County 48 kmSterling County 56 kmBorden County 57 kmNolan County 61 kmCoke County 65 kmGlasscock County 67 kmFisher County 77 km
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When
Magnitude
M 4.3 (ml)
Depth
5.3 km below the surface
Felt
54 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Measured shaking
intensity V (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
green
Nearest
Mitchell County, 14 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 7 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon. 54 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 43 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 4,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 180× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.3 about 43 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 89× more

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 32.3360, -101.0700. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mitchell County, TX 14 km (9 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Mitchell County
Howard County, TX 35 km (22 mi) E of here earthquakes near Howard County
Scurry County, TX 48 km (30 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Scurry County
Sterling County, TX 56 km (35 mi) N of here earthquakes near Sterling County
Borden County, TX 57 km (35 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Borden County
Nolan County, TX 61 km (38 mi) W of here earthquakes near Nolan County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 24 km E of Forsan, Texas
  2. 1.9 8 km NNW of Forsan, Texas
  3. 2.3 8 km NNW of Forsan, Texas
  4. 1.6 23 km S of Westbrook, Texas
  5. 1.9 8 km NNW of Forsan, Texas
  6. 2.5 8 km NNW of Forsan, Texas
  7. 1.9 8 km NNW of Forsan, Texas
  8. 1.5 8 km NNW of Forsan, Texas
  9. 2.8 6 km WSW of Westbrook, Texas
  10. 3.1 6 km WSW of Westbrook, Texas
  11. 1.5 8 km NNW of Forsan, Texas
  12. 2.4 24 km SSW of Westbrook, Texas
  13. 1.6 28 km S of Westbrook, Texas
  14. 2.0 24 km SSW of Westbrook, Texas
  15. 2.2 16 km SE of Coahoma, 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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