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M 2.8ml

12 km S of Valentine, Texas

· 5.0 km deep · released about 480 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Jeff Davis County 34 kmPresidio County 57 kmCulberson County 108 kmReeves County 120 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 2.8 (ml)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity I
Nearest
Jeff Davis County, 34 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2995 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 480 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 32,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 22,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.8 about 480 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 30.4745, -104.5032. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Jeff Davis County, TX 34 km (21 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Jeff Davis County
Presidio County, TX 57 km (35 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Presidio County
Culberson County, TX 108 km (67 mi) S of here earthquakes near Culberson County
Reeves County, TX 120 km (74 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Reeves County
Hudspeth County, TX 137 km (85 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Hudspeth County
Brewster County, TX 141 km (88 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Brewster County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.4 17 km NNW of Valentine, Texas
  2. 2.3 13 km WSW of Fort Davis, Texas
  3. 1.9 24 km WSW of Fort Davis, Texas
  4. 2.8 24 km WSW of Fort Davis, Texas
  5. 2.9 38 km SSW of Valentine, Texas
  6. 1.6 16 km NNW of Marfa, Texas
  7. 2.5 21 km NW of Valentine, Texas
  8. 2.6 45 km SSW of Valentine, Texas
  9. 2.1 16 km NNW of Marfa, Texas
  10. 1.9 32 km WNW of Valentine, 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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