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M 3.4ml

5 km SW of Luis Lopez, New Mexico

· 9.0 km deep · released about 1.9 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Socorro County 4 kmValencia County 85 kmSierra County 97 kmTorrance 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 3.4 (ml)
Depth
9.0 km below the surface
Felt
12 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Measured shaking
intensity III (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Socorro County, 4 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1330 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 12 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1.9 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 89,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 4,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,800× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.4 about 1.9 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 4× more

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 33.9604, -106.9296. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Socorro County, NM 4 km (2 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Socorro County
Valencia County, NM 85 km (53 mi) S of here earthquakes near Valencia County
Sierra County, NM 97 km (60 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Sierra County
Torrance County, NM 116 km (72 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Torrance County
Cibola County, NM 145 km (90 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

11 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. 2.7 37 km ENE of San Antonio, New Mexico
  5. 3.5 14 km NW of Alamillo, New Mexico
  6. 2.1 37 km ENE of San Antonio, New Mexico
  7. 2.2 2 km SSE of Luis Lopez, New Mexico
  8. 2.6 4 km W of Lemitar, New Mexico
  9. 3.1 5 km ENE of La Joya, New Mexico
  10. 2.2 New Mexico
  11. 3.3 4 km SSW of Luis Lopez, 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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