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M 3.5ml

New Mexico

· 7.7 km deep · released about 2.7 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Loving County 54 kmWinkler County 56 kmLea County 57 kmAndrews County 63 kmGaines County 82 kmEctor County 87 kmWard County 88 kmEddy County 95 kmYoakum County 107 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 3.5 (ml)
Depth
7.7 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Loving County, 54 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1030 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 2.7 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 63,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,800× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.5 about 2.7 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 5.6× more

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 32.2871, -103.3149. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Loving County, TX 54 km (34 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Loving County
Winkler County, TX 56 km (35 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Winkler County
Lea County, NM 57 km (36 mi) S of here earthquakes near Lea County
Andrews County, TX 63 km (39 mi) W of here earthquakes near Andrews County
Gaines County, TX 82 km (51 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Gaines County
Ector County, TX 87 km (54 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Ector County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 14 km E of Jal, New Mexico
  2. 1.8 16 km ESE of Jal, New Mexico
  3. 2.9 20 km ESE of Jal, New Mexico
  4. 2.4 20 km ESE of Jal, New Mexico
  5. 1.8 18 km ESE of Jal, New Mexico
  6. 1.7 19 km ESE of Jal, New Mexico
  7. 2.0 18 km ESE of Jal, New Mexico
  8. 1.9 18 km ESE of Jal, New Mexico
  9. 1.9 25 km SW of Jal, New Mexico
  10. 2.1 27 km SW of Jal, New Mexico
  11. 2.3 27 km SW of Jal, New Mexico
  12. 2.2 27 km SW of Jal, New Mexico
  13. 1.9 25 km SW of Jal, New Mexico
  14. 2.0 26 km SW of Jal, New Mexico
  15. 1.7 27 km SW of Jal, 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 5.6 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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