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M 3.8ml

49 km S of Whites City, New Mexico

· 8.7 km deep · released about 7.6 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Culberson County 35 kmLoving County 76 kmReeves County 76 kmEddy County 81 kmHudspeth County 102 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 3.8 (ml)
Depth
8.7 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Culberson County, 35 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1984 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 7.6 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 22,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 710× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.8 about 7.6 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 16× 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 31.7259, -104.3482. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Culberson County, TX 35 km (22 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Culberson County
Loving County, TX 76 km (47 mi) W of here earthquakes near Loving County
Reeves County, TX 76 km (47 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Reeves County
Eddy County, NM 81 km (51 mi) S of here earthquakes near Eddy County
Hudspeth County, TX 102 km (63 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Hudspeth County
Ward County, TX 120 km (75 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Ward 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. 1.6 53 km NW of Toyah, Texas
  2. 1.5 55 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  3. 1.8 56 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  4. 1.7 51 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  5. 2.2 55 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  6. 1.6 57 km NW of Toyah, Texas
  7. 1.6 51 km W of Mentone, Texas
  8. 1.5 44 km NW of Toyah, Texas
  9. 1.9 44 km NW of Toyah, Texas
  10. 2.1 51 km W of Mentone, Texas
  11. 1.6 51 km W of Mentone, Texas
  12. 2.5 51 km W of Mentone, Texas
  13. 1.8 52 km W of Mentone, Texas
  14. 1.8 52 km W of Mentone, Texas
  15. 1.8 32 km WNW of Mentone, 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 5.0 on 2020-03-26 — it released about 63 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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