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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

16 km NW of Mentone, Texas

· 9.2 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Loving County 18 kmReeves County 54 kmWinkler County 65 kmWard County 68 kmCulberson County 84 kmEddy County 91 kmEctor County 114 kmLea County 116 kmAndrews County 119 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
9.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Loving County, 18 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 19 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 7.6 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.6 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 31.7900, -103.7420. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Loving County, TX 18 km (11 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Loving County
Reeves County, TX 54 km (33 mi) N of here earthquakes near Reeves County
Winkler County, TX 65 km (40 mi) W of here earthquakes near Winkler County
Ward County, TX 68 km (42 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Ward County
Culberson County, TX 84 km (52 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Culberson County
Eddy County, NM 91 km (57 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Eddy County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 46 km NW of Toyah, Texas
  2. 1.5 40 km ESE of Malaga, New Mexico
  3. 1.6 40 km ESE of Malaga, New Mexico
  4. 1.7 36 km WSW of Mentone, Texas
  5. 2.0 49 km NW of Toyah, Texas
  6. 1.9 49 km NW of Toyah, Texas
  7. 2.0 40 km ESE of Malaga, New Mexico
  8. 2.7 40 km ESE of Malaga, New Mexico
  9. 2.3 31 km NW of Toyah, Texas
  10. 1.7 41 km NW of Toyah, Texas
  11. 1.5 40 km ESE of Malaga, New Mexico
  12. 1.7 40 km ESE of Malaga, New Mexico
  13. 1.9 49 km NW of Toyah, Texas
  14. 2.6 45 km NW of Toyah, Texas
  15. 1.5 49 km NW of Toyah, 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 500,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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