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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5ml

36 km SE of Malaga, New Mexico

· 8.2 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Loving County 28 kmEddy County 70 kmWinkler County 70 kmReeves County 80 kmWard County 85 kmLea County 91 kmCulberson County 97 kmAndrews County 110 kmEctor County 117 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 1.5 (ml)
Depth
8.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Loving County, 28 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 170 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 32.0300, -103.7620. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Loving County, TX 28 km (17 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Loving County
Eddy County, NM 70 km (43 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Eddy County
Winkler County, TX 70 km (44 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Winkler County
Reeves County, TX 80 km (50 mi) N of here earthquakes near Reeves County
Ward County, TX 85 km (53 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Ward County
Lea County, NM 91 km (57 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Lea County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 22 km WNW of Mentone, Texas
  2. 2.1 22 km WNW of Mentone, Texas
  3. 1.9 48 km W of Mentone, Texas
  4. 1.5 48 km W of Mentone, Texas
  5. 3.2 48 km W of Mentone, Texas
  6. 1.5 40 km ESE of Malaga, New Mexico
  7. 2.9 36 km ESE of Malaga, New Mexico
  8. 1.5 19 km SW of Jal, New Mexico
  9. 1.6 13 km SW of Jal, New Mexico
  10. 2.2 23 km WNW of Mentone, Texas
  11. 1.9 23 km WNW of Mentone, Texas
  12. 1.5 23 km WNW of Mentone, Texas
  13. 1.6 18 km SW of Jal, New Mexico
  14. 1.8 19 km SW of Jal, New Mexico
  15. 1.6 19 km SW of Jal, New Mexico

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 5.4 on 2022-11-16 — it released about 710,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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