M3.2 earthquake 28 km SW of Garden City, Texas

A magnitude 3.2 earthquake struck 28 km SW of Garden City, Texas on Mon, Dec 4, 2023, 12:32 PM CST (18:32 UTC), 4 km (2 mi) below the surface.

A larger quake followed: M3.5 17 km SSE of Ackerly, Texas. This one was a foreshock.

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Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.

Different scales measure different things and differ by a few tenths. The USGS marks one as preferred, and it is the one this page uses.

Mag.	Scale	Computed by	Notes
3.2	ML, local (Richter)	TX	Preferred · Final · ±0.1 · 13 stations
3.2	mb_Lg, Lg-wave body	USGS National Earthquake Information Center	Reviewed · ±0.049 · 110 stations

4 people reported to the USGS what they felt; the strongest reported shaking was III, weak shaking.

Reviewed by a seismologist.

Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.

Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 99 in the 60 days after this one and 65 in the 30 days before it.

The first 60 of 99.

From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event tx2023xtdf (also filed as us7000lg6w). Read Sun, Oct 4, 2026, 9:56 PM UTC.