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M 3.0ml

3 km ESE of Regina, New Mexico

· 2.8 km deep · released about 950 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Rio Arriba County 43 kmSandoval County 54 kmLos Alamos County 65 kmSanta Fe County 113 kmArchuleta County 115 km
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When
Magnitude
M 3.0 (ml)
Depth
2.8 km below the surface
Felt
4 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Rio Arriba County, 43 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1511 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 4 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 950 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 16,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 11,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 950 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 36.1699, -106.9229. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Rio Arriba County, NM 43 km (27 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Rio Arriba County
Sandoval County, NM 54 km (34 mi) N of here earthquakes near Sandoval County
Los Alamos County, NM 65 km (40 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Los Alamos County
Santa Fe County, NM 113 km (70 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Santa Fe County
Archuleta County, CO 115 km (72 mi) S of here earthquakes near Archuleta County
Taos County, NM 124 km (77 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Taos County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.3 13 km NNW of La Cueva, New Mexico
  2. 2.9 11 km NNE of Gallina, New Mexico
  3. 2.9 28 km NNW of Regina, New Mexico
  4. 2.9 7 km ENE of Capulin, New Mexico
  5. 2.8 7 km ESE of Cuba, New Mexico
  6. 3.5 9 km E of Cuba, New Mexico
  7. 2.5 10 km E of Cuba, New Mexico
  8. 2.9 3 km ESE of Capulin, New Mexico
  9. 2.6 9 km N of Capulin, New Mexico
  10. 2.5 11 km NW of Jemez Springs, New Mexico
  11. 2.6 7 km WSW of La Cueva, New Mexico
  12. 2.8 4 km NNW of Regina, New Mexico
  13. 2.5 New Mexico
  14. 2.7 2 km E of Capulin, New Mexico
  15. 2.7 4 km NE of Capulin, New Mexico

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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