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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.4mb_lg

8 km NNE of Falls City, Texas

· 5.0 km deep · released about 120 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Wilson County 18 kmKarnes County 19 kmAtascosa County 58 kmDeWitt County 59 kmGuadalupe County 59 kmGonzales County 65 kmGoliad County 68 kmBexar County 69 kmBee County 74 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.4 (mb_lg)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
4 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Wilson County, 18 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 452 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 4 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 120 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 130,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 89,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 7.9× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.4 about 120 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 29.0480, -97.9718. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Wilson County, TX 18 km (11 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Wilson County
Karnes County, TX 19 km (12 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Karnes County
Atascosa County, TX 58 km (36 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Atascosa County
DeWitt County, TX 59 km (37 mi) W of here earthquakes near DeWitt County
Guadalupe County, TX 59 km (37 mi) S of here earthquakes near Guadalupe County
Gonzales County, TX 65 km (41 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Gonzales County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 12 km SSE of Smiley, Texas
  2. 1.6 11 km SSE of Smiley, Texas
  3. 2.1 9 km WNW of Yorktown, Texas
  4. 1.5 16 km S of Nixon, Texas
  5. 2.0 21 km W of Pawnee, Texas
  6. 2.4 11 km SSE of Smiley, Texas
  7. 1.7 21 km W of Pawnee, Texas
  8. 1.8 21 km W of Pawnee, Texas
  9. 1.9 2 km N of Falls City, Texas
  10. 2.0 13 km ENE of Falls City, Texas
  11. 1.6 12 km ENE of Falls City, Texas
  12. 1.5 11 km ENE of Falls City, Texas
  13. 1.8 12 km ENE of Falls City, Texas
  14. 1.8 12 km ENE of Falls City, Texas
  15. 2.0 12 km ENE of Falls City, 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 4.0 on 2018-05-01 — it released about 250 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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