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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5ml

4 km SW of Midland, Texas

· 7.7 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
7.7 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Midland County, 20 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 131 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 31.9730, -102.1110. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Midland County, TX 20 km (13 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Midland County
Martin County, TX 40 km (25 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Martin County
Ector County, TX 42 km (26 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Ector County
Glasscock County, TX 57 km (35 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Glasscock County
Andrews County, TX 62 km (39 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Andrews County
Upton County, TX 69 km (43 mi) N of here earthquakes near Upton 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. 2.0 16 km W of Stanton, Texas
  2. 1.9 16 km NW of Stanton, Texas
  3. 2.4 16 km N of Midland, Texas
  4. 2.4 8 km SE of Gardendale, Texas
  5. 2.6 10 km WSW of Stanton, Texas
  6. 2.9 12 km W of Stanton, Texas
  7. 1.8 23 km W of Garden City, Texas
  8. 2.0 33 km E of McKinney Acres, Texas
  9. 1.7 11 km WSW of Stanton, Texas
  10. 3.1 12 km WSW of Stanton, Texas
  11. 1.5 13 km WSW of Stanton, Texas
  12. 1.7 12 km WSW of Stanton, Texas
  13. 2.3 12 km WSW of Stanton, Texas
  14. 3.1 12 km WSW of Stanton, Texas
  15. 1.6 36 km NW of Stanton, 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 5.2 on 2022-12-16 — it released about 350,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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