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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.8mb_lg

19 km NNW of Jal, New Mexico

· 10 km deep · released about 480 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Loving County 53 kmWinkler County 53 kmLea County 60 kmAndrews County 62 kmGaines County 82 kmEctor County 84 kmWard County 86 kmEddy County 97 kmYoakum County 109 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 2.8 (mb_lg)
Depth
10 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Loving County, 53 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 430 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 480 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 32,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 22,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.8 about 480 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 32.2674, -103.2966. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Loving County, TX 53 km (33 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Loving County
Winkler County, TX 53 km (33 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Winkler County
Lea County, NM 60 km (37 mi) S of here earthquakes near Lea County
Andrews County, TX 62 km (38 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 84 km (52 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

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

  1. 1.8 25 km SW of Jal, New Mexico
  2. 2.8 25 km SW of Jal, New Mexico
  3. 1.7 26 km SW of Jal, New Mexico
  4. 2.3 23 km SW of Jal, New Mexico
  5. 1.9 23 km SW of Jal, New Mexico
  6. 2.7 24 km SW of Jal, New Mexico
  7. 2.0 26 km SW of Jal, New Mexico
  8. 2.5 25 km SW of Jal, New Mexico
  9. 2.6 23 km SW of Jal, New Mexico
  10. 1.5 37 km ESE of Malaga, New Mexico
  11. 2.2 37 km ESE of Malaga, New Mexico
  12. 1.6 36 km ESE of Malaga, New Mexico
  13. 1.7 25 km SW of Jal, New Mexico
  14. 1.8 25 km SW of Jal, New Mexico
  15. 1.9 26 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 63 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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