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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.1ml

21 km NW of Steamboat Springs, Colorado

· 2.1 km deep · released about 1,300 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Routt County 15 kmJackson County 59 kmGrand County 95 kmMoffat County 101 kmEagle County 113 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 3.1 (ml)
Depth
2.1 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Routt County, 15 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 681 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,300 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 250,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 11,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 7,900× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.1 about 1,300 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.4× 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 40.6117, -107.0224. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Routt County, CO 15 km (9 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Routt County
Jackson County, CO 59 km (37 mi) W of here earthquakes near Jackson County
Grand County, CO 95 km (59 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Grand County
Moffat County, CO 101 km (63 mi) E of here earthquakes near Moffat County
Eagle County, CO 113 km (70 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Eagle County
Rio Blanco County, CO 123 km (76 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Rio Blanco County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 13 km NW of Steamboat Springs, Colorado
  2. 2.0 16 km WNW of Steamboat Springs, 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.

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