One of the strongest earthquakes in Texas history struck Friday evening in a western region of the stateThe U.S. Geological Survey said the temblor had a magnitude of 5.4 and struck at 5:35 p.m., local time.
It was centered about 14 miles north-northwest of Midland, with a depth of about 5.6 miles.The agency had previously issued a preliminary magnitude of 5.3 before updating it. In the interim, the National Weather Service’s office in Midland tweeted that it “would be the 4th strongest earthquake in Texas state history!”
Geophysicist Jana Pursley at the USGS’s National Earthquake Information Center in Colorado said that according to early reports received by the agency, the quake was felt by more than 1,500 people over a large distance from Amarillo and Abilene in Texas to as far west as Carlsbad, New Mexico
“It’s a sizable earthquake for that region,” Pursley said, adding, “In that region such an event will be felt for a couple of hundred miles.”
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