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M 2.6ml

13 km NNW of Oak Creek, Colorado

· 3.3 km deep · released about 240 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Routt County 12 kmJackson County 66 kmGrand County 83 kmEagle County 89 kmMoffat County 104 kmRio Blanco County 110 kmSummit County 113 kmGarfield County 115 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
3.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Routt County, 12 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3833 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 40.3828, -107.0228. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Routt County, CO 12 km (7 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Routt County
Jackson County, CO 66 km (41 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Jackson County
Grand County, CO 83 km (52 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Grand County
Eagle County, CO 89 km (55 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Eagle County
Moffat County, CO 104 km (65 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Moffat County
Rio Blanco County, CO 110 km (68 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Rio Blanco County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 17 km WSW of Phippsburg, Colorado
  2. 1.9 26 km WSW of Yampa, Colorado
  3. 2.0 29 km WSW of Yampa, Colorado
  4. 2.3 13 km NW of Steamboat Springs, Colorado
  5. 2.0 16 km WNW of Steamboat Springs, Colorado
  6. 3.1 21 km NW of Steamboat Springs, Colorado
  7. 1.7 26 km W of Walden, Colorado
  8. 1.5 37 km NNW of Steamboat Springs, Colorado
  9. 1.5 15 km WNW of Steamboat Springs, Colorado
  10. 2.5 5 km SSE of Craig, Colorado
  11. 2.4 Colorado
  12. 2.2 Colorado
  13. 2.1 8 km W of Oak Creek, Colorado
  14. 2.5 17 km WSW of Steamboat Springs, Colorado

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.

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