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M 3.8mwr

15 km SSE of Stonewall Gap, Colorado

· 5.1 km deep · released about 7.6 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Costilla County 48 kmColfax County 55 kmHuerfano County 74 kmTaos County 76 kmLas Animas County 90 kmAlamosa County 93 kmConejos County 107 kmMora County 115 km
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When
Magnitude
M 3.8 (mwr)
Depth
5.1 km below the surface
Felt
6 reports · strongest reported intensity V
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Costilla County, 48 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2607 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 6 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 7.6 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 22,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 710× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.8 about 7.6 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 16× more

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 37.0193, -104.9908. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Costilla County, CO 48 km (30 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Costilla County
Colfax County, NM 55 km (34 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Colfax County
Huerfano County, CO 74 km (46 mi) S of here earthquakes near Huerfano County
Taos County, NM 76 km (47 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Taos County
Las Animas County, CO 90 km (56 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Las Animas County
Alamosa County, CO 93 km (58 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Alamosa County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 16 km SSW of Weston, Colorado
  2. 2.6 17 km SSW of Weston, Colorado
  3. 1.7 13 km SSE of Stonewall Gap, Colorado
  4. 1.6 6 km S of Weston, Colorado
  5. 2.0 5 km SSW of Weston, Colorado
  6. 1.7 10 km WNW of El Moro, Colorado
  7. 1.7 11 km WNW of El Moro, Colorado
  8. 2.7 12 km WNW of El Moro, Colorado
  9. 2.2 11 km WNW of El Moro, Colorado
  10. 1.6 11 km NW of El Moro, Colorado
  11. 2.7 30 km NNE of Ute Park, New Mexico
  12. 1.7 14 km S of Weston, Colorado
  13. 1.7 15 km S of Weston, Colorado
  14. 2.0 12 km SW of Weston, Colorado
  15. 1.7 16 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 4.2 on 2016-12-23 — it released about 4 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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