Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist
M 2.5ml
26 km WSW of Los Ojos, New Mexico
- When
- Magnitude
- M 2.5 (ml)
- Depth
- 11 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Rio Arriba County, 20 km SE
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 8 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 170 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 89,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 63,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 5.6× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 2.5 about 170 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 36.6396, -106.8488. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rio Arriba County, NM | 20 km (12 mi) | NW of here | earthquakes near Rio Arriba County |
| Archuleta County, CO | 65 km (40 mi) | SSE of here | earthquakes near Archuleta County |
| Conejos County, CO | 87 km (54 mi) | SW of here | earthquakes near Conejos County |
| Los Alamos County, NM | 98 km (61 mi) | NNW of here | earthquakes near Los Alamos County |
| Rio Grande County, CO | 100 km (62 mi) | SSW of here | earthquakes near Rio Grande County |
| Mineral County, CO | 102 km (63 mi) | S of here | earthquakes near Mineral 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.
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 4.2 on 2021-07-12 — it released about 350 times the energy of this one.
From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.
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
QuakeIndex does not issue warnings. For earthquake early warning see ShakeAlert.