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M 2.2ml

New Mexico

· 11 km deep · released about 60 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Socorro County 9 kmValencia County 90 kmSierra County 92 kmTorrance County 119 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 2.2 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Socorro County, 9 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1174 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 60 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 250,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 180,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 16× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.2 about 60 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 33.9149, -106.9263. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Socorro County, NM 9 km (5 mi) S of here earthquakes near Socorro County
Valencia County, NM 90 km (56 mi) S of here earthquakes near Valencia County
Sierra County, NM 92 km (57 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Sierra County
Torrance County, NM 119 km (74 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Torrance County
Cibola County, NM 149 km (93 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

8 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

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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