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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.6mb_lg

34 km NNW of Nara Visa, New Mexico

· 10 km deep · released about 240 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Hartley County 56 kmHarding County 56 kmUnion County 69 kmDallam County 72 kmOldham County 79 kmQuay County 93 kmCimarron County 114 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 2.6 (mb_lg)
Depth
10 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Hartley County, 56 km E
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.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 240 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 63,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 45,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 240 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 35.8985, -103.2288. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Hartley County, TX 56 km (35 mi) W of here earthquakes near Hartley County
Harding County, NM 56 km (35 mi) E of here earthquakes near Harding County
Union County, NM 69 km (43 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Union County
Dallam County, TX 72 km (44 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Dallam County
Oldham County, TX 79 km (49 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Oldham County
Quay County, NM 93 km (58 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Quay County

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

Aftershocks so far

1 earthquake has been recorded within 50 km since this one.

  1. 2.2 9 km SW of Texline, Texas

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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