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M 3.1ml

17 km S of Mora, New Mexico

· 5.0 km deep · released about 1,300 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mora County 41 kmSan Miguel County 61 kmSanta Fe County 66 kmLos Alamos County 88 kmTaos County 89 kmColfax County 108 kmGuadalupe County 116 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 3.1 (ml)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
21 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Mora County, 41 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3200 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 21 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,300 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 250,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 11,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 7,900× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.1 about 1,300 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.4× more

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 35.8170, -105.3304. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mora County, NM 41 km (26 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Mora County
San Miguel County, NM 61 km (38 mi) NW of here earthquakes near San Miguel County
Santa Fe County, NM 66 km (41 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Santa Fe County
Los Alamos County, NM 88 km (55 mi) E of here earthquakes near Los Alamos County
Taos County, NM 89 km (55 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Taos County
Colfax County, NM 108 km (67 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Colfax County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.7 13 km ESE of Watrous, New Mexico
  2. 2.9 22 km N of Pecos, 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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