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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5ml

12 km SSW of Jal, New Mexico

· 5.5 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Winkler County 27 kmLoving County 35 kmWard County 57 kmAndrews County 66 kmEctor County 69 kmLea County 89 kmReeves County 90 kmCrane County 97 kmGaines County 100 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
5.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Winkler County, 27 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 55 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 32.0110, -103.2490. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Winkler County, TX 27 km (17 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Winkler County
Loving County, TX 35 km (22 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Loving County
Ward County, TX 57 km (35 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Ward County
Andrews County, TX 66 km (41 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Andrews County
Ector County, TX 69 km (43 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Ector County
Lea County, NM 89 km (55 mi) S of here earthquakes near Lea 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. 1.4 40 km ESE of Malaga, New Mexico
  2. 1.0 40 km ESE of Malaga, New Mexico
  3. 1.3 40 km ESE of Malaga, New Mexico
  4. 1.2 40 km ESE of Malaga, New Mexico
  5. 1.3 40 km ESE of Malaga, New Mexico
  6. 0.8 40 km ESE of Malaga, New Mexico
  7. 1.9 40 km ESE of Malaga, New Mexico
  8. 1.5 40 km ESE of Malaga, New Mexico
  9. 1.6 40 km ESE of Malaga, New Mexico
  10. 2.0 40 km ESE of Malaga, New Mexico
  11. 2.7 40 km ESE of Malaga, New Mexico
  12. 2.3 15 km W of Eunice, New Mexico
  13. 1.5 40 km ESE of Malaga, New Mexico
  14. 1.7 40 km ESE of Malaga, New Mexico
  15. 1.5 40 km ESE of Malaga, 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 4.0 on 2021-07-19 — it released about 5,600 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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