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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.6ml

20 km WNW of Mentone, Texas

· 7.5 km deep · released about 240 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Loving County 26 kmReeves County 50 kmWard County 72 kmWinkler County 72 kmCulberson County 76 kmEddy County 92 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 2.6 (ml)
Depth
7.5 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity I
Nearest
Loving County, 26 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 99 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 240 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 63,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 45,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 240 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 31.7490, -103.8130. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Loving County, TX 26 km (16 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Loving County
Reeves County, TX 50 km (31 mi) N of here earthquakes near Reeves County
Ward County, TX 72 km (45 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Ward County
Winkler County, TX 72 km (45 mi) W of here earthquakes near Winkler County
Culberson County, TX 76 km (47 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Culberson County
Eddy County, NM 92 km (57 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Eddy County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 47 km NW of Toyah, Texas
  2. 2.1 22 km WNW of Mentone, Texas
  3. 1.5 57 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  4. 1.9 48 km W of Mentone, Texas
  5. 1.5 48 km W of Mentone, Texas
  6. 3.2 48 km W of Mentone, Texas
  7. 1.5 40 km ESE of Malaga, New Mexico
  8. 2.9 36 km ESE of Malaga, New Mexico
  9. 1.5 57 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  10. 1.6 58 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  11. 1.6 50 km SSE of Whites City, New Mexico
  12. 1.6 57 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  13. 1.6 35 km WSW of Mentone, Texas
  14. 1.6 56 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  15. 2.2 23 km WNW 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 5.4 on 2022-11-16 — 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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