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M 1.5ml

18 km S of Nixon, Texas

· 8.3 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
8.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Karnes County, 22 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 124 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 29.0970, -97.7700. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Karnes County, TX 22 km (14 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Karnes County
Wilson County, TX 32 km (20 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Wilson County
DeWitt County, TX 40 km (25 mi) W of here earthquakes near DeWitt County
Gonzales County, TX 49 km (30 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Gonzales County
Guadalupe County, TX 57 km (35 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Guadalupe County
Goliad County, TX 59 km (36 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Goliad County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 16 km SSW of Smiley, Texas
  2. 1.3 17 km SSE of Nixon, Texas
  3. 1.7 16 km S of Smiley, Texas
  4. 1.1 14 km SSW of Smiley, Texas
  5. 1.8 15 km SSW of Smiley, Texas
  6. 1.2 16 km SSW of Smiley, Texas
  7. 1.7 13 km SSW of Falls City, Texas
  8. 1.1 15 km SSW of Smiley, Texas
  9. 2.8 14 km SSW of Smiley, Texas
  10. 2.4 15 km SSW of Smiley, Texas
  11. 1.5 12 km SSW of Falls City, Texas
  12. 2.4 12 km SSW of Falls City, Texas
  13. 1.7 4 km S of Falls City, Texas
  14. 1.6 12 km SW of Falls City, Texas
  15. 1.6 12 km SW 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 45,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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