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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.9ml

2 km S of Valdez, Colorado

· 5.0 km deep · released about 21 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Colfax County 54 kmLas Animas County 64 kmCostilla County 67 kmHuerfano County 69 kmTaos County 101 kmAlamosa County 109 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 1.9 (ml)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Colfax County, 54 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1107 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 21 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 710,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 500,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 45× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 21 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 37.0972, -104.7058. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Colfax County, NM 54 km (34 mi) N of here earthquakes near Colfax County
Las Animas County, CO 64 km (40 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Las Animas County
Costilla County, CO 67 km (42 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Costilla County
Huerfano County, CO 69 km (43 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Huerfano County
Taos County, NM 101 km (63 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Taos County
Alamosa County, CO 109 km (68 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Alamosa 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. 3.6 8 km NNW of Segundo, Colorado
  2. 2.4 13 km SSE of Stonewall Gap, Colorado
  3. 1.9 14 km S of Stonewall Gap, Colorado
  4. 1.8 16 km S of Stonewall Gap, Colorado
  5. 2.3 13 km SSE of Stonewall Gap, Colorado
  6. 1.8 14 km SSE of Stonewall Gap, Colorado
  7. 2.0 13 km SSE of Stonewall Gap, Colorado
  8. 1.8 13 km SSE of Stonewall Gap, Colorado
  9. 1.5 15 km SSE of Stonewall Gap, Colorado
  10. 2.6 12 km SSE of Walsenburg, Colorado
  11. 1.5 14 km SSE of Stonewall Gap, Colorado
  12. 1.9 12 km SSE of Stonewall Gap, Colorado
  13. 2.6 13 km SW of Weston, Colorado
  14. 1.8 13 km S of Stonewall Gap, Colorado
  15. 1.7 12 km SSE of Stonewall Gap, 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 4,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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