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M 3.2ml

4 km NNW of Glenwood Springs, Colorado

· 5.0 km deep · released about 1,900 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Garfield County 49 kmPitkin County 55 kmEagle County 56 kmRio Blanco County 85 kmDelta County 92 kmLake County 95 kmSummit County 103 kmRoutt County 104 kmGunnison County 105 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 3.2 (ml)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
5 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Garfield County, 49 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2780 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 5 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,900 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 7,900× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 5,600× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 1,900 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2× 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 39.5855, -107.3438. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Garfield County, CO 49 km (30 mi) E of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Pitkin County, CO 55 km (34 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Pitkin County
Eagle County, CO 56 km (35 mi) W of here earthquakes near Eagle County
Rio Blanco County, CO 85 km (53 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Rio Blanco County
Delta County, CO 92 km (57 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Delta County
Lake County, CO 95 km (59 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Lake County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 10 km NW of Dotsero, Colorado
  2. 2.8 10 km NE of Redstone, Colorado
  3. 2.5 30 km NNW of Dotsero, Colorado
  4. 2.6 12 km S of Mulford, Colorado
  5. 2.1 6 km NNW of Chacra, Colorado
  6. 2.5 22 km NNW of New Castle, Colorado
  7. 2.9 6 km NNE of Chacra, Colorado
  8. 1.9 6 km WNW of Snowmass Village, Colorado
  9. 2.5 7 km NNW of Chacra, Colorado
  10. 2.6 6 km NNW of Chacra, Colorado
  11. 2.9 8 km NNW of Chacra, Colorado
  12. 2.1 9 km NNE of New Castle, Colorado
  13. 2.5 6 km NNW of Gypsum, Colorado
  14. 1.8 2 km NNW of El Jebel, Colorado
  15. 1.7 15 km NW of Dotsero, 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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