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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.7ml

13 km SSW of Weston, Colorado

· 3.5 km deep · released about 340 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Costilla County 52 kmColfax County 53 kmHuerfano County 73 kmTaos County 81 kmLas Animas County 84 kmAlamosa County 97 kmConejos County 113 kmMora County 117 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 2.7 (ml)
Depth
3.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Costilla County, 52 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1990 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 340 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 45,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 32,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2.8× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.7 about 340 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 37.0335, -104.9272. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Costilla County, CO 52 km (32 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Costilla County
Colfax County, NM 53 km (33 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Colfax County
Huerfano County, CO 73 km (45 mi) S of here earthquakes near Huerfano County
Taos County, NM 81 km (50 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Taos County
Las Animas County, CO 84 km (52 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Las Animas County
Alamosa County, CO 97 km (60 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

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

  1. 1.5 17 km SSW of Weston, Colorado
  2. 1.8 31 km S of Segundo, Colorado
  3. 2.6 16 km S of Weston, Colorado
  4. 1.6 14 km S of Stonewall Gap, Colorado
  5. 1.5 14 km SSE of Stonewall Gap, Colorado
  6. 1.6 14 km S of Weston, Colorado
  7. 1.8 New Mexico
  8. 2.8 15 km S of Weston, Colorado
  9. 2.1 25 km SSW of Segundo, Colorado
  10. 1.7 31 km S of Stonewall Gap, Colorado
  11. 1.5 22 km NNE of Cimarron, New Mexico
  12. 2.3 29 km SSW of Weston, Colorado
  13. 2.1 30 km S of Weston, Colorado
  14. 2.3 25 km S of Segundo, Colorado
  15. 1.7 15 km NNE of Stonewall Gap, 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 180 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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