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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.6ml

31 km WNW of Whites City, New Mexico

· 5.0 km deep · released about 240 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Eddy County 41 kmCulberson County 94 kmOtero County 106 kmHudspeth County 113 kmLoving 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 2.6 (ml)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Eddy County, 41 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 311 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 240 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 63,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 45,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 240 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 32.2802, -104.6920. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Eddy County, NM 41 km (26 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Eddy County
Culberson County, TX 94 km (58 mi) N of here earthquakes near Culberson County
Otero County, NM 106 km (66 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Otero County
Hudspeth County, TX 113 km (70 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Hudspeth County
Loving County, TX 117 km (73 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Loving County
Reeves County, TX 142 km (88 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Reeves County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.4 33 km SSE of Hope, New Mexico
  2. 2.8 13 km WNW of Whites City, New Mexico
  3. 2.5 19 km NW of Whites City, New Mexico
  4. 2.7 22 km NNW of Whites City, New Mexico
  5. 2.9 5 km SSE of Livingston Wheeler, New Mexico
  6. 3.1 25 km WNW of La Huerta, New Mexico
  7. 2.5 26 km SSE of Hope, New Mexico
  8. 2.6 24 km SSW of Atoka, New Mexico
  9. 2.9 27 km WNW of Whites City, New Mexico
  10. 2.6 28 km SW of Atoka, New Mexico
  11. 3.4 27 km SSE of Hope, New Mexico
  12. 2.6 28 km SSE of Hope, New Mexico
  13. 3.1 27 km SSE of Hope, New Mexico
  14. 2.9 25 km WNW of Whites City, New Mexico
  15. 2.6 5 km SSE of Livingston Wheeler, 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 2024-02-23 — it released about 130 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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