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M 2.7mb_lg

21 km SSW of Lovington, New Mexico

· 5.0 km deep · released about 340 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lea County 4 kmYoakum County 72 kmGaines County 76 kmEddy County 88 kmAndrews County 91 kmLoving County 104 kmCochran County 109 kmWinkler County 111 kmTerry County 113 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 2.7 (mb_lg)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lea County, 4 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2213 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 340 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 45,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 32,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2.8× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.7 about 340 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 32.7731, -103.4484. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lea County, NM 4 km (3 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Lea County
Yoakum County, TX 72 km (45 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Yoakum County
Gaines County, TX 76 km (48 mi) W of here earthquakes near Gaines County
Eddy County, NM 88 km (54 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Eddy County
Andrews County, TX 91 km (57 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Andrews County
Loving County, TX 104 km (64 mi) N of here earthquakes near Loving County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 15 km W of Eunice, New Mexico
  2. 2.5 20 km SW of Monument, New Mexico
  3. 2.7 24 km WSW of Eunice, New Mexico
  4. 2.9 26 km SW of Monument, New Mexico
  5. 3.2 38 km SW of Monument, New Mexico
  6. 2.4 23 km SSW of Lovington, New Mexico
  7. 2.7 22 km NW of Monument, New Mexico
  8. 2.4 21 km SSW of Lovington, New Mexico
  9. 2.7 21 km NW of Monument, New Mexico
  10. 2.6 22 km SSW of Lovington, New Mexico
  11. 2.9 22 km NW of Monument, 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.

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