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M 2.5mb_lg

4 km SSE of Rendon, Texas

· 5.0 km deep · released about 170 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Johnson County 23 kmTarrant County 27 kmEllis County 45 kmDallas County 48 kmHood County 59 kmParker County 61 kmHill County 62 kmSomervell County 63 kmDenton County 75 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.5 (mb_lg)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
107 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Johnson County, 23 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2383 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 107 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

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 32.5399, -97.2172. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Johnson County, TX 23 km (14 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Johnson County
Tarrant County, TX 27 km (17 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Tarrant County
Ellis County, TX 45 km (28 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Ellis County
Dallas County, TX 48 km (30 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Dallas County
Hood County, TX 59 km (37 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Hood County
Parker County, TX 61 km (38 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Parker County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 6 km SSE of Farmers Branch, Texas
  2. 2.2 5 km S of Farmers Branch, Texas
  3. 3.1 7 km SSW of Mansfield, Texas
  4. 3.2 7 km S of Mansfield, Texas
  5. 2.0 4 km SSE of Haslet, Texas
  6. 1.5 5 km NNE of Irving, Texas
  7. 2.3 7 km S of Mansfield, Texas
  8. 1.8 5 km N of Itasca, Texas
  9. 2.3 6 km NNE of Irving, Texas
  10. 1.6 5 km SSW of Farmers Branch, Texas
  11. 1.6 6 km N of Itasca, Texas
  12. 1.5 5 km S of Grandview, Texas
  13. 2.4 2 km SSW of Joshua, Texas
  14. 1.8 7 km S of Mansfield, Texas
  15. 3.2 8 km SSW of Mansfield, 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.

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