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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

33 km WSW of Mentone, Texas

· 5.8 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Reeves County 41 kmLoving County 44 kmCulberson County 59 kmWard County 80 kmWinkler County 87 kmEddy County 99 kmJeff Davis 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 1.6 (ml)
Depth
5.8 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Reeves County, 41 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1546 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 7.6 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.6 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 31.6194, -103.9417. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Reeves County, TX 41 km (25 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Reeves County
Loving County, TX 44 km (27 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Loving County
Culberson County, TX 59 km (36 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Culberson County
Ward County, TX 80 km (50 mi) W of here earthquakes near Ward County
Winkler County, TX 87 km (54 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Winkler County
Eddy County, NM 99 km (62 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Eddy County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 44 km NW of Toyah, Texas
  2. 2.0 42 km NW of Toyah, Texas
  3. 3.0 55 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  4. 2.3 30 km NW of Toyah, Texas
  5. 2.1 36 km WSW of Mentone, Texas
  6. 3.5 36 km WSW of Mentone, Texas
  7. 3.2 36 km NNW of Toyah, Texas
  8. 2.1 42 km NW of Toyah, Texas
  9. 2.7 45 km NW of Toyah, Texas
  10. 3.2 37 km NNW of Toyah, Texas
  11. 2.5 36 km NNW of Toyah, Texas
  12. 2.6 30 km NW of Toyah, Texas
  13. 2.1 36 km NNW of Toyah, Texas
  14. 2.5 55 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
  15. 2.0 55 km S of Whites City, 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 5.0 on 2020-03-26 — it released about 130,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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