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rock burst · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5ml

13 km ENE of Paonia, Colorado

· 1.0 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Delta County 37 kmGunnison County 42 kmPitkin County 58 kmOuray County 88 kmGarfield County 88 kmMesa County 89 kmMontrose County 90 kmLake County 101 kmChaffee County 101 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
1.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Delta County, 37 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1820 days ago

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

USGS catalogues this as rock burst, not an earthquake.

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 38.8968, -107.4448. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Delta County, CO 37 km (23 mi) E of here earthquakes near Delta County
Gunnison County, CO 42 km (26 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Gunnison County
Pitkin County, CO 58 km (36 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Pitkin County
Ouray County, CO 88 km (55 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Ouray County
Garfield County, CO 88 km (55 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Mesa County, CO 89 km (55 mi) E of here earthquakes near Mesa County

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

Aftershocks so far

1 earthquake has been recorded within 50 km since this one.

  1. 2.8 10 km NE of Redstone, 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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