QuakeIndex

Earthquakes in New Mexico

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47 quakes of M1.5 or larger in the last 7 days in New Mexico. Normal for here is 2 to 69 in a week.

Compared against New Mexico's own 10 years · USGS catalogue · updated

The last 30 days

Aug 29 Sep 13 Sep 27
Each mark is a day's largest quake within range; its size is the magnitude. The shaded band is the magnitude a day's largest quake normally falls in here (M2.4–M3.0), from this place's own 10-year record. A mark above the band is a bigger day than usual.

Live · last 7 days

Latest earthquakes in New Mexico

2 in the latest snapshot we hold; the full 7 days load from USGS as this page opens.

  1. 2.5 57 km SSW of Whites City, New Mexico 6 km deep
  2. 2.6 15 km E of Socorro, New Mexico 5 km deep

Source USGS · snapshot of

Where this is

Centre 34.771, -106.677 — the mean of this state’s place centroids, from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Activity is measured across a rectangle drawn around the state, so a few earthquakes just over its border are counted too.

Largest on record in and around New Mexico

MagnitudeWhenWhere
M 5.4 Coalson Draw, Texas
M 5.4 59 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
M 5.2 Coalson Draw, Texas
M 5.0 53 km NW of Toyah, Texas
M 5.0 41 km W of Mentone, Texas
M 4.9 55 km S of Whites City, New Mexico
M 4.7 34 km WSW of Mentone, Texas
M 4.7 52 km SSW of Whites City, New Mexico

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service · inside a rectangle drawn around New Mexico, which takes in some ground over its borders.

Counties in New Mexico

After an earthquake here