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M 2.6ml

15 km SW of Santa Teresa, New Mexico

· 4.4 km deep · released about 240 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Sandoval County 40 kmLos Alamos County 46 kmRio Arriba County 53 kmSanta Fe County 94 kmBernalillo County 110 kmTaos County 118 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 2.6 (ml)
Depth
4.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Sandoval County, 40 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1843 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 240 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 63,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 45,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 240 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 36.0383, -106.7775. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Sandoval County, NM 40 km (25 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Sandoval County
Los Alamos County, NM 46 km (29 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Los Alamos County
Rio Arriba County, NM 53 km (33 mi) S of here earthquakes near Rio Arriba County
Santa Fe County, NM 94 km (58 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Santa Fe County
Bernalillo County, NM 110 km (68 mi) N of here earthquakes near Bernalillo County
Taos County, NM 118 km (74 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Taos County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.3 13 km NNW of La Cueva, New Mexico
  2. 2.9 11 km NNE of Gallina, New Mexico
  3. 2.9 7 km ENE of Capulin, New Mexico
  4. 2.8 7 km ESE of Cuba, New Mexico
  5. 3.5 9 km E of Cuba, New Mexico
  6. 2.5 10 km E of Cuba, New Mexico
  7. 2.9 3 km ESE of Capulin, New Mexico
  8. 2.6 9 km N of Capulin, New Mexico
  9. 2.5 11 km NW of Jemez Springs, New Mexico
  10. 2.6 7 km WSW of La Cueva, New Mexico
  11. 2.8 4 km NNW of Regina, New Mexico
  12. 2.5 New Mexico
  13. 2.7 2 km E of Capulin, New Mexico
  14. 2.7 4 km NE of Capulin, New Mexico
  15. 3.7 3 km E of Capulin, 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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