Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist
M 2.7ml
44 km N of Pie Town, New Mexico
- When
- Magnitude
- M 2.7 (ml)
- Depth
- 5.6 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Cibola County, 27 km NNE
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 243 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 340 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.7 would have released about 32 times as much.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 45,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 32,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2.8× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 2.7 about 340 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 34.6965, -108.0696. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cibola County, NM | 27 km (17 mi) | SSW of here | earthquakes near Cibola County |
| Catron County, NM | 93 km (58 mi) | NNE of here | earthquakes near Catron County |
| McKinley County, NM | 100 km (62 mi) | S of here | earthquakes near McKinley County |
| Valencia County, NM | 115 km (72 mi) | W of here | earthquakes near Valencia County |
| Socorro County, NM | 130 km (81 mi) | NW of here | earthquakes near Socorro County |
| Sandoval County, NM | 154 km (96 mi) | SW of here | earthquakes near Sandoval County |
Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.
Aftershocks so far
4 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.
- 2.8 21 km SW of Pinehill, New Mexico
- 3.4 20 km SW of Pinehill, New Mexico
- 2.9 20 km NNE of Fence Lake, New Mexico
- 3.4 19 km ENE of Pie Town, 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.
On USGS
- The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
- Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
- ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one
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