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M 2.7mb_lg

25 km NNE of Mentone, Texas

· 6.0 km deep · released about 340 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Loving County 11 kmWinkler County 39 kmWard County 55 kmReeves County 70 kmEctor County 87 kmAndrews County 90 kmLea County 100 kmEddy County 101 kmCrane County 106 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
6.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Loving County, 11 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2073 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 31.8986, -103.4622. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Loving County, TX 11 km (7 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Loving County
Winkler County, TX 39 km (24 mi) W of here earthquakes near Winkler County
Ward County, TX 55 km (34 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Ward County
Reeves County, TX 70 km (43 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Reeves County
Ector County, TX 87 km (54 mi) W of here earthquakes near Ector County
Andrews County, TX 90 km (56 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Andrews 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. 2.0 33 km W of Mentone, Texas
  2. 1.6 33 km W of Mentone, Texas
  3. 2.0 22 km WNW of Mentone, Texas
  4. 2.2 7 km NW of Barstow, Texas
  5. 1.8 21 km WNW of Mentone, Texas
  6. 1.7 22 km WNW of Mentone, Texas
  7. 1.9 26 km NNE of Mentone, Texas
  8. 2.0 22 km WNW of Mentone, Texas
  9. 1.8 21 km WNW of Mentone, Texas
  10. 2.7 35 km SE of Malaga, New Mexico
  11. 2.2 35 km ESE of Malaga, New Mexico
  12. 3.4 35 km SE of Malaga, New Mexico
  13. 1.8 22 km WNW of Mentone, Texas
  14. 1.5 20 km WNW of Mentone, Texas
  15. 2.0 21 km WNW of Mentone, 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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