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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.9ml

20 km NNE of Fence Lake, New Mexico

· 10 km deep · released about 680 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Cibola County 55 kmMcKinley County 90 kmApache County 103 kmCatron County 104 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 2.9 (ml)
Depth
10 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Cibola County, 55 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 29 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 34.8227, -108.5852. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Cibola County, NM 55 km (34 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Cibola County
McKinley County, NM 90 km (56 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near McKinley County
Apache County, AZ 103 km (64 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Apache County
Catron County, NM 104 km (65 mi) N of here earthquakes near Catron County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.8 21 km SW of Pinehill, New Mexico
  2. 3.4 20 km SW of Pinehill, 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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