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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.5mb_lg

17 km NNW of Jal, New Mexico

· 7.0 km deep · released about 170 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Winkler County 51 kmLoving County 53 kmAndrews County 60 kmLea County 62 kmEctor County 81 kmGaines County 82 kmWard County 84 kmEddy County 100 kmYoakum County 110 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 2.5 (mb_lg)
Depth
7.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Winkler County, 51 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 261 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 170 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 89,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 63,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 5.6× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.5 about 170 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 32.2506, -103.2754. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Winkler County, TX 51 km (32 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Winkler County
Loving County, TX 53 km (33 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Loving County
Andrews County, TX 60 km (37 mi) W of here earthquakes near Andrews County
Lea County, NM 62 km (39 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Lea County
Ector County, TX 81 km (51 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Ector County
Gaines County, TX 82 km (51 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Gaines County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 26 km SW of Jal, New Mexico
  2. 3.0 26 km SW of Jal, New Mexico
  3. 1.5 26 km SW of Jal, New Mexico
  4. 1.9 26 km SW of Jal, New Mexico
  5. 1.6 36 km ESE of Malaga, New Mexico
  6. 1.5 37 km ESE of Malaga, New Mexico
  7. 1.6 37 km ESE of Malaga, New Mexico
  8. 2.0 37 km ESE of Malaga, New Mexico
  9. 1.6 26 km SW of Jal, New Mexico
  10. 2.0 36 km ESE of Malaga, New Mexico
  11. 1.9 37 km ESE of Malaga, New Mexico
  12. 3.3 12 km NNW of Kermit, Texas
  13. 1.6 39 km NNW of Mentone, Texas
  14. 1.8 28 km SW of Jal, New Mexico
  15. 2.6 28 km SW of Jal, 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 2021-07-19 — it released about 180 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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