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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.9ml

1 km SSE of Galisteo, New Mexico

· 5.7 km deep · released about 680 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Santa Fe County 15 kmLos Alamos County 63 kmBernalillo County 75 kmSandoval County 92 kmTorrance County 92 kmSan Miguel County 104 kmValencia County 108 kmMora County 114 kmGuadalupe County 120 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 2.9 (ml)
Depth
5.7 km below the surface
Felt
50 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Santa Fe County, 15 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2360 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 50 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 680 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 22,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 16,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1.4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.9 about 680 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 35.3822, -105.9428. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Santa Fe County, NM 15 km (9 mi) S of here earthquakes near Santa Fe County
Los Alamos County, NM 63 km (39 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Los Alamos County
Bernalillo County, NM 75 km (47 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Bernalillo County
Sandoval County, NM 92 km (57 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Sandoval County
Torrance County, NM 92 km (57 mi) N of here earthquakes near Torrance County
San Miguel County, NM 104 km (64 mi) W of here earthquakes near San Miguel County

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

Aftershocks so far

1 earthquake has been recorded within 50 km since this one.

  1. 2.9 3 km WSW of Peña Blanca, 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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