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M 1.8ml

8 km WSW of Socorro, New Mexico

· 5.0 km deep · released about 15 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Socorro County 7 kmValencia County 77 kmSierra County 104 kmTorrance County 116 kmBernalillo County 116 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 1.8 (ml)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Socorro County, 7 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1912 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 15 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 710,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 63× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 15 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 34.0426, -106.9865. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Socorro County, NM 7 km (4 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Socorro County
Valencia County, NM 77 km (48 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Valencia County
Sierra County, NM 104 km (65 mi) N of here earthquakes near Sierra County
Torrance County, NM 116 km (72 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Torrance County
Bernalillo County, NM 116 km (72 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Bernalillo County
Cibola County, NM 135 km (84 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Cibola County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.2 16 km ESE of Magdalena, New Mexico
  2. 2.5 13 km W of Socorro, New Mexico
  3. 2.6 10 km W of Socorro, New Mexico
  4. 3.6 4 km WNW of Abeytas, New Mexico
  5. 2.7 37 km ENE of San Antonio, New Mexico
  6. 3.5 14 km NW of Alamillo, New Mexico
  7. 2.1 37 km ENE of San Antonio, New Mexico
  8. 2.2 2 km SSE of Luis Lopez, New Mexico
  9. 2.6 4 km W of Lemitar, New Mexico
  10. 3.1 5 km ENE of La Joya, New Mexico
  11. 2.2 New Mexico
  12. 3.3 4 km SSW of Luis Lopez, New Mexico
  13. 3.4 5 km SW of Luis Lopez, New Mexico
  14. 2.6 3 km SW of Luis Lopez, New Mexico
  15. 3.0 7 km WSW of Abeytas, 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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