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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5ml

15 km WNW of Steamboat Springs, Colorado

· 5.0 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Routt County 8 kmJackson County 58 kmGrand County 89 kmMoffat County 103 kmEagle County 106 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 1.5 (ml)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Routt County, 8 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1972 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 5.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 180× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.4 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 40.5511, -106.9954. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Routt County, CO 8 km (5 mi) N of here earthquakes near Routt County
Jackson County, CO 58 km (36 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Jackson County
Grand County, CO 89 km (56 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Grand County
Moffat County, CO 103 km (64 mi) E of here earthquakes near Moffat County
Eagle County, CO 106 km (66 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Eagle County
Rio Blanco County, CO 121 km (75 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Rio Blanco County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 17 km WSW of Phippsburg, Colorado
  2. 2.3 13 km NW of Steamboat Springs, Colorado
  3. 2.0 16 km WNW of Steamboat Springs, Colorado
  4. 3.1 21 km NW of Steamboat Springs, Colorado
  5. 1.7 26 km W of Walden, Colorado
  6. 1.5 37 km NNW of Steamboat Springs, 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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