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M 3.1ml

16 km SSW of Lindsay, Texas

· 5.0 km deep · released about 1,300 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Reeves County 16 kmWard County 55 kmLoving County 69 kmWinkler County 84 kmJeff Davis County 89 kmCulberson County 94 kmPecos County 96 kmCrane County 105 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 3.1 (ml)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Reeves County, 16 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3111 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 2 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,300 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 250,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 11,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 7,900× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.1 about 1,300 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.4× 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 31.2227, -103.5728. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Reeves County, TX 16 km (10 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Reeves County
Ward County, TX 55 km (34 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Ward County
Loving County, TX 69 km (43 mi) S of here earthquakes near Loving County
Winkler County, TX 84 km (52 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Winkler County
Jeff Davis County, TX 89 km (55 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Jeff Davis County
Culberson County, TX 94 km (58 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Culberson 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. 2.1 1 km SW of Pecos, Texas
  2. 2.5 6 km ESE of Lindsay, Texas
  3. 2.3 4 km W of Pecos, Texas
  4. 2.8 16 km WSW of Coyanosa, Texas
  5. 2.6 2 km ESE of Pecos, Texas
  6. 2.6 western Texas
  7. 2.6 14 km N of Balmorhea, Texas
  8. 2.7 10 km SE of Lindsay, Texas
  9. 2.5 19 km WSW of Coyanosa, Texas
  10. 1.7 14 km SSW of Lindsay, Texas
  11. 3.4 20 km WSW of Coyanosa, Texas
  12. 2.7 21 km SE of Lindsay, Texas
  13. 2.5 29 km SW of Coyanosa, Texas
  14. 2.5 24 km W of Coyanosa, Texas
  15. 3.1 31 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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