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M 3.6ml

22 km WSW of Coyanosa, Texas

· 2.2 km deep · released about 3.8 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Ward County 40 kmReeves County 42 kmPecos County 72 kmWinkler County 75 kmLoving County 77 kmCrane County 81 kmEctor County 103 kmJeff Davis County 107 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 3.6 (ml)
Depth
2.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Ward County, 40 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3586 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 3.8 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 45,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.6 about 3.8 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 7.9× more

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 31.1940, -103.2924. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Ward County, TX 40 km (25 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Ward County
Reeves County, TX 42 km (26 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Reeves County
Pecos County, TX 72 km (45 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Pecos County
Winkler County, TX 75 km (46 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Winkler County
Loving County, TX 77 km (48 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Loving County
Crane County, TX 81 km (50 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Crane County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.9 13 km SSE of Lindsay, Texas
  2. 2.6 11 km SSW of Lindsay, Texas
  3. 3.0 20 km WSW of Coyanosa, Texas
  4. 2.5 7 km NNW of Barstow, Texas
  5. 2.5 17 km WSW of Coyanosa, Texas
  6. 2.7 24 km WSW of Coyanosa, Texas
  7. 2.9 29 km SW of Coyanosa, Texas
  8. 2.7 28 km SSE of Lindsay, Texas
  9. 3.0 22 km WSW of Coyanosa, Texas
  10. 2.2 24 km WSW of Coyanosa, Texas
  11. 1.6 21 km S of Lindsay, Texas
  12. 3.1 16 km SSW of Lindsay, Texas
  13. 2.7 26 km WSW of Coyanosa, Texas
  14. 2.5 19 km WSW of Coyanosa, Texas
  15. 3.0 35 km SW of Coyanosa, 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.

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