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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.0ml

7 km ESE of Big Spring, Texas

· 8.5 km deep · released about 30 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Howard County 10 kmGlasscock County 41 kmMitchell County 46 kmMartin County 53 kmSterling County 54 kmBorden County 58 kmMidland County 72 kmScurry County 75 kmDawson County 77 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (ml)
Depth
8.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Howard County, 10 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 342 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 32.2200, -101.4080. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Howard County, TX 10 km (6 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Howard County
Glasscock County, TX 41 km (25 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Glasscock County
Mitchell County, TX 46 km (29 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Mitchell County
Martin County, TX 53 km (33 mi) E of here earthquakes near Martin County
Sterling County, TX 54 km (34 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Sterling County
Borden County, TX 58 km (36 mi) S of here earthquakes near Borden County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.1 6 km WSW of Westbrook, Texas
  2. 1.5 8 km NNW of Forsan, Texas
  3. 2.4 24 km SSW of Westbrook, Texas
  4. 1.6 28 km S of Westbrook, Texas
  5. 2.0 24 km SSW of Westbrook, Texas
  6. 2.2 16 km SE of Coahoma, Texas
  7. 2.1 26 km S of Westbrook, Texas
  8. 1.7 26 km S of Westbrook, Texas
  9. 1.5 21 km ESE of Forsan, Texas
  10. 2.5 5 km WSW of Westbrook, Texas
  11. 1.7 12 km W of Stanton, Texas
  12. 2.6 12 km W of Stanton, Texas
  13. 2.3 11 km W of Forsan, Texas
  14. 1.5 19 km E of Forsan, Texas
  15. 1.5 24 km SSW 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 7,900 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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