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M 2.5ml

6 km S of De Beque, Colorado

· 3.0 km deep · released about 170 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mesa County 35 kmGarfield County 45 kmDelta County 56 kmRio Blanco County 78 kmMontrose County 96 kmPitkin County 113 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 2.5 (ml)
Depth
3.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mesa County, 35 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2951 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 170 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 89,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 63,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 5.6× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.5 about 170 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 39.2739, -108.2276. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mesa County, CO 35 km (22 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Mesa County
Garfield County, CO 45 km (28 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Delta County, CO 56 km (35 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Delta County
Rio Blanco County, CO 78 km (48 mi) S of here earthquakes near Rio Blanco County
Montrose County, CO 96 km (60 mi) N of here earthquakes near Montrose County
Pitkin County, CO 113 km (70 mi) W of here earthquakes near Pitkin County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 15 km WSW of Collbran, Colorado
  2. 2.0 14 km NE of Fruita, Colorado
  3. 2.8 29 km WNW of De Beque, Colorado
  4. 1.9 19 km SSE of Orchard Mesa, Colorado
  5. 1.7 24 km NNE of Loma, Colorado
  6. 1.5 28 km NW of De Beque, Colorado
  7. 2.0 15 km ENE of Palisade, Colorado
  8. 1.7 12 km SE of De Beque, Colorado
  9. 1.7 11 km NE of Battlement Mesa, Colorado
  10. 1.6 22 km NNE of Loma, Colorado
  11. 1.6 35 km NNE of Loma, Colorado
  12. 2.7 26 km NNE of Loma, Colorado
  13. 1.5 22 km WNW of Delta, Colorado
  14. 2.6 28 km NNE of Fruita, Colorado
  15. 2.6 24 km NNW of Parachute, 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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