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M 3.7mwr

4 km ENE of Capulin, New Mexico

· 11 km deep · released about 5.4 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Rio Arriba County 30 kmLos Alamos County 59 kmSandoval County 64 kmTaos County 107 kmArchuleta County 109 kmSanta Fe County 109 kmConejos County 119 km
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When
Magnitude
M 3.7 (mwr)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
232 reports · strongest reported intensity V
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
green
Nearest
Rio Arriba County, 30 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1903 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 232 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 5.4 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 32,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,400× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.7 about 5.4 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 11× 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 36.2503, -106.7668. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Rio Arriba County, NM 30 km (18 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Rio Arriba County
Los Alamos County, NM 59 km (37 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Los Alamos County
Sandoval County, NM 64 km (40 mi) N of here earthquakes near Sandoval County
Taos County, NM 107 km (67 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Taos County
Archuleta County, CO 109 km (68 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Archuleta County
Santa Fe County, NM 109 km (68 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Santa Fe County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.5 17 km WSW of Los Ojos, New Mexico
  2. 2.5 26 km WSW of Los Ojos, New Mexico
  3. 2.6 26 km WSW of Los Ojos, New Mexico
  4. 3.3 13 km NNW of La Cueva, New Mexico
  5. 3.6 22 km WSW of Los Ojos, New Mexico
  6. 2.9 11 km NNE of Gallina, New Mexico
  7. 3.2 26 km WSW of Los Ojos, New Mexico
  8. 2.9 28 km NNW of Regina, New Mexico
  9. 2.9 7 km ENE of Capulin, New Mexico
  10. 2.8 7 km ESE of Cuba, New Mexico
  11. 3.5 9 km E of Cuba, New Mexico
  12. 2.5 10 km E of Cuba, New Mexico
  13. 2.9 3 km ESE of Capulin, New Mexico
  14. 2.6 9 km N of Capulin, New Mexico
  15. 2.5 11 km NW of Jemez Springs, 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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