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M 2.0ml

Colorado

· 6.7 km deep · released about 30 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Huerfano County 56 kmCostilla County 61 kmLas Animas County 63 kmColfax County 67 kmAlamosa County 100 kmTaos County 106 kmPueblo County 108 kmCuster County 113 kmOtero County 117 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 2.0 (ml)
Depth
6.7 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Huerfano County, 56 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1202 days ago

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

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 30 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 32× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 30 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 37.2106, -104.7456. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Huerfano County, CO 56 km (35 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Huerfano County
Costilla County, CO 61 km (38 mi) E of here earthquakes near Costilla County
Las Animas County, CO 63 km (39 mi) W of here earthquakes near Las Animas County
Colfax County, NM 67 km (42 mi) N of here earthquakes near Colfax County
Alamosa County, CO 100 km (62 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Alamosa County
Taos County, NM 106 km (66 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Taos County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 18 km S of Weston, Colorado
  2. 1.6 25 km WSW of Raton, New Mexico
  3. 1.9 2 km S of Valdez, Colorado
  4. 1.7 5 km ENE of El Moro, Colorado
  5. 2.0 7 km NNW of El Moro, Colorado
  6. 1.6 9 km SSE of Stonewall Gap, Colorado
  7. 1.7 15 km S of Weston, Colorado
  8. 1.7 7 km NNW of El Moro, Colorado
  9. 2.4 Colorado
  10. 2.6 6 km NNW of El Moro, Colorado
  11. 2.8 12 km SW of Weston, Colorado
  12. 2.1 Colorado
  13. 1.9 8 km N of El Moro, Colorado
  14. 1.6 21 km ENE of Lynn, Colorado
  15. 1.8 7 km N of El Moro, 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.3 on 2023-03-10 — it released about 2,800 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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