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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.9ml

26 km SW of Monument, New Mexico

· 4.0 km deep · released about 680 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lea County 38 kmLoving County 69 kmAndrews County 79 kmEddy County 79 kmWinkler County 80 kmGaines County 84 kmYoakum County 98 kmEctor County 109 kmWard County 111 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 2.9 (ml)
Depth
4.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lea County, 38 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1676 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 680 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 22,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 16,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1.4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.9 about 680 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 32.4604, -103.4628. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lea County, NM 38 km (23 mi) S of here earthquakes near Lea County
Loving County, TX 69 km (43 mi) N of here earthquakes near Loving County
Andrews County, TX 79 km (49 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Andrews County
Eddy County, NM 79 km (49 mi) E of here earthquakes near Eddy County
Winkler County, TX 80 km (49 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Winkler County
Gaines County, TX 84 km (52 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Gaines County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.7 15 km NE of Jal, New Mexico
  2. 3.3 14 km NE of Jal, New Mexico
  3. 1.7 New Mexico
  4. 2.5 30 km WNW of Jal, New Mexico
  5. 2.2 15 km NE of Jal, New Mexico
  6. 3.5 New Mexico
  7. 3.1 19 km SW of Eunice, New Mexico
  8. 1.8 17 km NNE of Jal, New Mexico
  9. 2.1 15 km NE of Jal, New Mexico
  10. 2.6 16 km NE of Jal, New Mexico
  11. 1.9 16 km NNE of Jal, New Mexico
  12. 2.4 25 km SW of Eunice, New Mexico
  13. 2.7 16 km NE of Jal, New Mexico
  14. 3.6 13 km NE of Jal, New Mexico
  15. 1.8 17 km NE of Jal, 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.0 on 2021-07-19 — it released about 45 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

On USGS

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