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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.8ml

29 km NNE of Cimarron, New Mexico

· 5.0 km deep · released about 15 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Colfax County 24 kmTaos County 76 kmCostilla County 78 kmMora County 88 kmLas Animas County 93 kmHuerfano County 103 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 1.8 (ml)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Colfax County, 24 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 290 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 15 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 710,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 63× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 15 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 36.7660, -104.8237. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Colfax County, NM 24 km (15 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Colfax County
Taos County, NM 76 km (47 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Taos County
Costilla County, CO 78 km (49 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Costilla County
Mora County, NM 88 km (54 mi) N of here earthquakes near Mora County
Las Animas County, CO 93 km (58 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Las Animas County
Huerfano County, CO 103 km (64 mi) S of here earthquakes near Huerfano 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. 1.6 30 km S of Segundo, Colorado
  2. 3.2 15 km SSW of Weston, Colorado
  3. 2.3 30 km SSW of Segundo, Colorado
  4. 1.5 19 km S of Weston, Colorado
  5. 1.7 33 km WSW of Raton, New Mexico
  6. 1.8 18 km SSW of Weston, Colorado
  7. 1.7 34 km WSW of Raton, New Mexico
  8. 2.0 34 km WSW of Raton, New Mexico
  9. 2.8 16 km SSE of Stonewall Gap, Colorado
  10. 2.1 17 km S of Weston, Colorado
  11. 1.7 31 km N of Cimarron, New Mexico
  12. 2.5 17 km S of Weston, Colorado
  13. 1.5 27 km S of Weston, Colorado
  14. 2.7 28 km SSW of Segundo, Colorado
  15. 1.6 17 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 5,600 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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