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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.8ml

7 km ESE of Livingston Wheeler, New Mexico

· 5.0 km deep · released about 480 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Eddy County 19 kmLoving County 79 kmLea County 82 kmCulberson County 109 kmChaves County 115 kmWinkler County 117 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
13 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Eddy County, 19 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 350 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 13 people have 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 32.3654, -104.1305. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Eddy County, NM 19 km (12 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Eddy County
Loving County, TX 79 km (49 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Loving County
Lea County, NM 82 km (51 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Lea County
Culberson County, TX 109 km (68 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Culberson County
Chaves County, NM 115 km (72 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Chaves County
Winkler County, TX 117 km (73 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Winkler County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.6 34 km SSE of Hope, New Mexico
  2. 3.3 31 km SSE of Hope, New Mexico
  3. 2.9 27 km SW of Atoka, New Mexico
  4. 2.6 17 km NW of Whites City, New Mexico
  5. 2.8 16 km NNW of Whites City, New Mexico
  6. 2.7 18 km NW of Whites City, New Mexico
  7. 2.4 16 km NW of Whites City, New Mexico
  8. 1.6 36 km ESE of Malaga, New Mexico
  9. 2.2 32 km SE of Malaga, New Mexico
  10. 2.0 33 km SE of Malaga, New Mexico
  11. 3.5 24 km NW of Whites City, New Mexico
  12. 3.4 30 km NW of Whites City, New Mexico
  13. 2.5 35 km ESE of Malaga, New Mexico
  14. 2.5 23 km WNW of Whites City, New Mexico
  15. 1.7 33 km SE of Malaga, New Mexico

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 2024-02-23 — 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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