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M 3.4mwr

8 km NW of Venus, Texas

· 5.0 km deep · released about 1.9 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Johnson County 22 kmTarrant County 34 kmEllis County 38 kmDallas County 48 kmHill County 56 kmHood County 63 kmSomervell County 64 kmParker County 68 kmBosque County 78 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 3.4 (mwr)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
346 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Johnson County, 22 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2554 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 346 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1.9 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 89,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 4,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,800× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.4 about 1.9 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 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 32.4813, -97.1671. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Johnson County, TX 22 km (14 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Johnson County
Tarrant County, TX 34 km (21 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Tarrant County
Ellis County, TX 38 km (24 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Ellis County
Dallas County, TX 48 km (30 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Dallas County
Hill County, TX 56 km (35 mi) N of here earthquakes near Hill County
Hood County, TX 63 km (39 mi) E of here earthquakes near Hood County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.1 7 km SSW of Mansfield, Texas
  2. 3.2 7 km S of Mansfield, Texas
  3. 1.5 5 km NNE of Irving, Texas
  4. 2.3 7 km S of Mansfield, Texas
  5. 1.8 5 km N of Itasca, Texas
  6. 2.3 6 km NNE of Irving, Texas
  7. 1.6 5 km SSW of Farmers Branch, Texas
  8. 1.6 6 km N of Itasca, Texas
  9. 1.5 5 km S of Grandview, Texas
  10. 2.4 2 km SSW of Joshua, Texas
  11. 1.8 7 km S of Mansfield, Texas
  12. 3.2 8 km SSW of Mansfield, Texas
  13. 2.5 4 km SSE of Rendon, Texas
  14. 2.3 3 km SSE of Fort Worth, Texas
  15. 2.4 10 km WSW of Cleburne, 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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