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M 1.7ml

9 km NE of Hilltop, Texas

· 7.6 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Frio County 13 kmLa Salle County 44 kmAtascosa County 58 kmZavala County 65 kmMcMullen County 66 kmMedina County 67 kmDimmit County 74 kmUvalde County 93 kmBexar County 96 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
7.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Frio County, 13 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 277 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 11 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 89× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 28.7510, -99.1080. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Frio County, TX 13 km (8 mi) S of here earthquakes near Frio County
La Salle County, TX 44 km (28 mi) N of here earthquakes near La Salle County
Atascosa County, TX 58 km (36 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Atascosa County
Zavala County, TX 65 km (40 mi) E of here earthquakes near Zavala County
McMullen County, TX 66 km (41 mi) NW of here earthquakes near McMullen County
Medina County, TX 67 km (42 mi) S of here earthquakes near Medina 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 5 km WSW of Dilley, Texas
  2. 1.9 8 km ESE of Pearsall, Texas
  3. 1.9 8 km ESE of Pearsall, Texas
  4. 1.7 9 km SE of Pearsall, Texas
  5. 1.7 8 km ESE of Pearsall, Texas
  6. 2.1 6 km WSW of Dilley, Texas
  7. 1.7 6 km ESE of Pearsall, Texas
  8. 1.9 8 km E of Pearsall, Texas
  9. 2.0 4 km WSW of Hilltop, Texas
  10. 2.2 10 km WNW of Hilltop, Texas
  11. 1.6 6 km ESE of Pearsall, Texas
  12. 1.7 11 km SSE of Moore, Texas
  13. 2.0 7 km SE of Pearsall, Texas
  14. 1.8 10 km ESE of Pearsall, Texas
  15. 1.8 6 km ESE of Pearsall, 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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