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Earthquakes in Otero County, New Mexico

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The most recent earthquake of M2.5 or more near Otero County was M 3.0, 2 km NNE of La Luz, New Mexico, 46 km (29 mi) NNW of the centre of Otero County, at 5:00 am MDT on 25 October 2022, 5 km deep. 7 people reported feeling it to USGS. The estimated shaking at the centre of Otero County was intensity II (weak), felt by some people at rest indoors.

No earthquake of M1.5 or more was recorded within 50 km (31 mi) of the centre of Otero County in the last 24 hours.

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Since 2016
1 earthquake of M1.5 or more
Largest since 2016
M 3.0 on 25 October 2022, 2 km NNE of La Luz, New Mexico
Nearest mapped fault
Alamogordo fault, 11 km from the centre to its surface trace

Latest quake, 24 hours and 7 days: the QuakeIndex database, which reads USGS every 30 seconds, read at ; 30 days and 12 months: the QuakeIndex catalogue, counted to · earthquakes of M1.5 or more within 50 km (31 mi) of the centre of Otero County · shaking is estimated for the centre with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses

Earthquakes are rare here

1 earthquake of M1.5 or larger has been recorded within 50 km in 10 years, and most weeks have none. There have been none in the last 7 days.

With so few, a QuakeIndex score — this week as a percentile of Otero County, New Mexico's own weeks — would only say whether anything happened at all, so none is shown. That is a statement about Otero County, New Mexico, not about our data.

USGS catalogue · updated

If you felt one

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The last 30 days

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Each mark is a day's largest quake within range; its size is the magnitude. Too few days here have any earthquake at all to draw a normal range.

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Every earthquake within 50 km of Otero County, New Mexico in the last 7 days, from the USGS feed. Colour and size are magnitude; tap one for its page.

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The centre is 32.616, -105.751, the Census internal point of Otero County, New Mexico from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Activity on this page is measured within 50 km of it — the dashed circle.

Largest on record nearby

The strongest shaking this record implies at the centre of Otero County, New Mexico is intensity II (weak), from the M 3.0 of 2022, 46 km away. At that level a few people indoors notice it; most do not.

MagnitudeWhenWhereShaking here (est.)
M 3.0 2 km NNE of La Luz, New Mexico · felt by 7 II · Weak

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service · within 50 km of the centre above. Shaking is an estimate for the centre from magnitude, depth and distance, with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses (Atkinson & Wald, 2007), on the Modified Mercalli scale. Ground conditions change it locally; it is a description of the past, not a hazard rating.

Before 2016

The USGS record from 1900 to 2015 lists no earthquake of M5 or more within 50 km of the centre of Otero County, New Mexico.

USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900 to 2015. Epicentres of early earthquakes are estimates. This is the record, not a forecast.

Nearest mapped faults

USGS Quaternary Fault and Fold Database, within 50 km. Near is not the same as on, and faults with no surface trace are not in it.

Be ready

Earthquakes cannot be predicted, here or anywhere, so the useful step is the one taken beforehand. The advice below is from the agencies responsible for it.