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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5ml

21 km ESE of Forsan, Texas

· 8.4 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Sterling County 27 kmMitchell County 34 kmHoward County 38 kmGlasscock County 42 kmCoke County 53 kmNolan County 74 kmScurry County 78 kmBorden County 79 kmMartin County 81 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
8.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Sterling County, 27 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 314 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 32.0680, -101.1480. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Sterling County, TX 27 km (17 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Sterling County
Mitchell County, TX 34 km (21 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Mitchell County
Howard County, TX 38 km (24 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Howard County
Glasscock County, TX 42 km (26 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Glasscock County
Coke County, TX 53 km (33 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Coke County
Nolan County, TX 74 km (46 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Nolan County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 14 km SSW of Big Spring, Texas
  2. 2.1 24 km SSW of Westbrook, Texas
  3. 2.2 16 km SE of Coahoma, Texas
  4. 2.5 16 km SE of Coahoma, Texas
  5. 1.5 23 km S of Westbrook, Texas
  6. 2.4 9 km N of Garden City, Texas
  7. 2.6 9 km N of Garden City, Texas
  8. 1.6 9 km N of Garden City, Texas
  9. 2.7 9 km N of Garden City, Texas
  10. 2.4 10 km NNE of Garden City, Texas
  11. 1.5 9 km N of Garden City, Texas
  12. 2.6 10 km N of Garden City, Texas
  13. 1.9 9 km N of Garden City, Texas
  14. 2.8 9 km NNE of Garden City, Texas
  15. 1.9 19 km NW 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 4.3 on 2025-10-12 — it released about 16,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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