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M 3.1ml

15 km SSE of Stonewall Gap, Colorado

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

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Costilla County 49 kmColfax County 54 kmHuerfano County 74 kmTaos County 76 kmLas Animas County 90 kmAlamosa County 94 kmConejos County 108 kmMora County 115 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
no reports yet
Nearest
Costilla County, 49 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2602 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 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 37.0181, -104.9819. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Costilla County, CO 49 km (30 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Costilla County
Colfax County, NM 54 km (34 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Colfax County
Huerfano County, CO 74 km (46 mi) S of here earthquakes near Huerfano County
Taos County, NM 76 km (47 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Taos County
Las Animas County, CO 90 km (56 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Las Animas County
Alamosa County, CO 94 km (58 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Alamosa County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 13 km SW of Weston, Colorado
  2. 1.8 13 km NNE of Weston, Colorado
  3. 1.5 16 km SSW of Weston, Colorado
  4. 2.6 17 km SSW of Weston, Colorado
  5. 1.7 13 km SSE of Stonewall Gap, Colorado
  6. 1.6 6 km S of Weston, Colorado
  7. 2.0 5 km SSW of Weston, Colorado
  8. 1.7 10 km WNW of El Moro, Colorado
  9. 1.7 11 km WNW of El Moro, Colorado
  10. 2.7 12 km WNW of El Moro, Colorado
  11. 2.2 11 km WNW of El Moro, Colorado
  12. 1.6 11 km NW of El Moro, Colorado
  13. 2.7 30 km NNE of Ute Park, New Mexico
  14. 1.7 14 km S of Weston, Colorado
  15. 1.7 15 km S of Weston, 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.2 on 2016-12-23 — it released about 45 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

On USGS

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