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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.5ml

41 km WNW of Whites City, New Mexico

· 5.0 km deep · released about 170 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Eddy County 44 kmOtero County 97 kmCulberson County 105 kmChaves County 114 kmHudspeth County 117 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 2.5 (ml)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Eddy County, 44 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 616 days ago

A magnitude 2.5 earthquake was recorded 41 km WNW of Whites City, New Mexico at 04:39 UTC on 2024-11-09. 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 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.0 on 2024-02-23 — about 180 times the energy of this one.

Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.

Where

Epicentre 32.3660, -104.7577. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection from the epicentre
Eddy County, NM 44 km (27 mi) ENE earthquakes near Eddy County
Otero County, NM 97 km (60 mi) WNW earthquakes near Otero County
Culberson County, TX 105 km (65 mi) SSE earthquakes near Culberson County
Chaves County, NM 114 km (71 mi) NNE earthquakes near Chaves County
Hudspeth County, TX 117 km (73 mi) SSW earthquakes near Hudspeth County
Loving County, TX 127 km (79 mi) ESE earthquakes near Loving County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.9 27 km WNW of Whites City, New Mexico
  2. 2.6 28 km SW of Atoka, New Mexico
  3. 3.4 27 km SSE of Hope, New Mexico
  4. 2.6 28 km SSE of Hope, New Mexico
  5. 3.1 27 km SSE of Hope, New Mexico
  6. 2.9 25 km WNW of Whites City, New Mexico
  7. 3.3 12 km S of Atoka, New Mexico
  8. 2.5 9 km S of Atoka, New Mexico
  9. 3.1 17 km NW of Whites City, New Mexico
  10. 4.4 9 km SSW of Atoka, New Mexico
  11. 2.8 14 km SSW of Atoka, New Mexico
  12. 3.0 11 km S of Atoka, New Mexico
  13. 3.6 22 km WSW of Carlsbad, New Mexico
  14. 3.1 28 km NW of Whites City, New Mexico
  15. 2.5 19 km WSW of Carlsbad, 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.

On USGS

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