Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist
M 2.5ml
19 km WNW of Cañon City, Colorado
- When
- Magnitude
- M 2.5 (ml)
- Depth
- 8.1 km below the surface
- Felt
- 5 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
- Nearest
- Fremont County, 7 km S
- 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. 5 people have reported feeling it to USGS.
How big was it?
This earthquake released about 170 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 89,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 63,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 5.6× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 2.5 about 170 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 38.5199, -105.4380. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fremont County, CO | 7 km (5 mi) | N of here | earthquakes near Fremont County |
| Teller County, CO | 45 km (28 mi) | SSW of here | earthquakes near Teller County |
| Custer County, CO | 47 km (29 mi) | N of here | earthquakes near Custer County |
| Park County, CO | 71 km (44 mi) | SSE of here | earthquakes near Park County |
| Chaffee County, CO | 79 km (49 mi) | ESE of here | earthquakes near Chaffee County |
| El Paso County, CO | 86 km (54 mi) | WSW of here | earthquakes near El Paso County |
Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.
Aftershocks so far
No further earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.
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.
On USGS
- The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
- Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
- ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one
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