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M 3.3ml

12 km NNW of Kermit, Texas

· 8.8 km deep · released about 1.3 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Winkler County 16 kmLoving County 44 kmWard County 50 kmEctor County 56 kmAndrews County 60 kmCrane County 85 kmReeves County 92 kmLea County 96 kmGaines County 98 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 3.3 (ml)
Depth
8.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Winkler County, 16 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 179 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1.3 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 130,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 5,600× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 4,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.3 about 1.3 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2.8× 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 31.9640, -103.1220. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Winkler County, TX 16 km (10 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Winkler County
Loving County, TX 44 km (27 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Loving County
Ward County, TX 50 km (31 mi) N of here earthquakes near Ward County
Ector County, TX 56 km (35 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Ector County
Andrews County, TX 60 km (37 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Andrews County
Crane County, TX 85 km (53 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Crane 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. 2.3 19 km SW of Jal, New Mexico
  2. 1.7 12 km SW of Jal, New Mexico
  3. 3.1 12 km SW of Jal, New Mexico
  4. 3.5 12 km SW of Jal, New Mexico
  5. 2.0 12 km SW of Jal, New Mexico
  6. 1.7 24 km NNE of Mentone, Texas
  7. 2.2 16 km NE of Jal, New Mexico
  8. 1.7 17 km NE of Jal, New Mexico
  9. 1.7 12 km N of Mentone, Texas
  10. 1.8 24 km NNE of Mentone, Texas
  11. 2.2 24 km NNE of Mentone, Texas
  12. 2.3 24 km NNE of Mentone, Texas
  13. 1.9 24 km NNE of Mentone, Texas
  14. 1.7 24 km NNE of Mentone, Texas
  15. 1.8 24 km NNE of Mentone, 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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