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M 3.0ml

32 km ENE of Malaga, New Mexico

· 2.9 km deep · released about 950 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Loving County 53 kmEddy County 56 kmLea County 63 kmWinkler County 82 kmAndrews County 103 kmWard County 106 kmReeves County 110 kmGaines County 115 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 3.0 (ml)
Depth
2.9 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Loving County, 53 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 74 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 950 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 16,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 11,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 950 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 32.2977, -103.7370. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Loving County, TX 53 km (33 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Loving County
Eddy County, NM 56 km (35 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Eddy County
Lea County, NM 63 km (39 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Lea County
Winkler County, TX 82 km (51 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Winkler County
Andrews County, TX 103 km (64 mi) W of here earthquakes near Andrews County
Ward County, TX 106 km (66 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Ward County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 33 km SSE of Malaga, New Mexico
  2. 1.6 39 km NNW of Mentone, Texas
  3. 1.6 39 km NNW of Mentone, Texas
  4. 1.6 34 km NW of Mentone, Texas
  5. 1.5 36 km NW of Mentone, Texas
  6. 1.6 34 km SE of Malaga, New Mexico
  7. 1.8 36 km ESE of Malaga, New Mexico
  8. 2.9 5 km SSE of Livingston Wheeler, New Mexico
  9. 1.5 35 km SE of Malaga, New Mexico
  10. 2.3 35 km SE of Malaga, New Mexico
  11. 3.6 20 km SW of Eunice, New Mexico
  12. 2.6 34 km SE of Malaga, New Mexico
  13. 2.5 19 km SW of Eunice, New Mexico
  14. 2.4 34 km SE of Malaga, New Mexico
  15. 1.5 33 km SSE 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 2021-07-19 — it released about 32 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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