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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.9ml

12 km N of Trout Valley, New Mexico

· 13 km deep · released about 680 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Grant County 50 kmCatron County 87 kmSierra County 91 kmGreenlee County 101 kmLuna County 114 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.9 (ml)
Depth
13 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Grant County, 50 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 289 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 680 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 22,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 16,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1.4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.9 about 680 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 33.1436, -108.1683. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Grant County, NM 50 km (31 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Grant County
Catron County, NM 87 km (54 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Catron County
Sierra County, NM 91 km (57 mi) W of here earthquakes near Sierra County
Greenlee County, AZ 101 km (62 mi) E of here earthquakes near Greenlee County
Luna County, NM 114 km (71 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Luna County
Socorro County, NM 148 km (92 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Socorro County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.6 3 km SSE of Cliff, New Mexico
  2. 2.7 18 km NNE of Lake Roberts Heights, New Mexico
  3. 2.0 7 km N of Trout Valley, 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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