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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.8mb_lg

13 km SW of Newkirk, New Mexico

· 5.0 km deep · released about 480 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Guadalupe County 41 kmDe Baca County 69 kmSan Miguel County 69 kmQuay County 75 kmCurry County 103 kmHarding County 108 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 2.8 (mb_lg)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Guadalupe County, 41 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3239 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 480 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 32,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 22,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.8 about 480 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 34.9765, -104.3565. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Guadalupe County, NM 41 km (25 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Guadalupe County
De Baca County, NM 69 km (43 mi) N of here earthquakes near De Baca County
San Miguel County, NM 69 km (43 mi) SE of here earthquakes near San Miguel County
Quay County, NM 75 km (47 mi) W of here earthquakes near Quay County
Curry County, NM 103 km (64 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Curry County
Harding County, NM 108 km (67 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Harding County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.0 22 km S of Newkirk, New Mexico
  2. 2.6 29 km SW of Tucumcari, New Mexico
  3. 2.7 5 km SSW of Newkirk, 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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