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M 1.7ml

5 km E of Falls City, Texas

· 8.9 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Karnes County 13 kmWilson County 25 kmAtascosa County 57 kmDeWitt County 60 kmGoliad County 63 kmBee County 66 kmGuadalupe County 67 kmGonzales County 70 kmLive Oak County 72 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
8.9 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Karnes County, 13 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 152 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 28.9810, -97.9630. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Karnes County, TX 13 km (8 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Karnes County
Wilson County, TX 25 km (15 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Wilson County
Atascosa County, TX 57 km (35 mi) E of here earthquakes near Atascosa County
DeWitt County, TX 60 km (37 mi) W of here earthquakes near DeWitt County
Goliad County, TX 63 km (39 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Goliad County
Bee County, TX 66 km (41 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Bee County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 18 km S of Nixon, Texas
  2. 2.9 19 km S of Nixon, Texas
  3. 1.5 19 km S of Nixon, Texas
  4. 1.5 18 km S of Nixon, Texas
  5. 2.0 17 km E of Pleasanton, Texas
  6. 2.3 19 km NNW of Three Rivers, Texas
  7. 1.5 16 km WNW of Pawnee, Texas
  8. 1.5 9 km ENE of Falls City, Texas
  9. 2.1 6 km ENE of Falls City, Texas
  10. 1.6 6 km E of Falls City, Texas
  11. 1.9 7 km ENE of Falls City, Texas
  12. 1.5 10 km ENE of Falls City, Texas
  13. 2.1 10 km ENE of Falls City, Texas
  14. 2.2 9 km ENE of Falls City, Texas
  15. 1.8 4 km ENE of Falls City, 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 4.6 on 2025-01-30 — it released about 22,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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