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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.6ml

17 km SSW of Weston, Colorado

· 5.0 km deep · released about 240 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Colfax County 48 kmCostilla County 57 kmHuerfano County 78 kmTaos County 80 kmLas Animas County 85 kmAlamosa County 102 kmMora County 111 kmConejos County 116 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 2.6 (ml)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Colfax County, 48 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2247 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 240 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 63,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 45,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 240 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 36.9848, -104.9047. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Colfax County, NM 48 km (30 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Colfax County
Costilla County, CO 57 km (35 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Costilla County
Huerfano County, CO 78 km (49 mi) S of here earthquakes near Huerfano County
Taos County, NM 80 km (49 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Taos County
Las Animas County, CO 85 km (53 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Las Animas County
Alamosa County, CO 102 km (63 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

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

  1. 1.7 13 km SSE of Stonewall Gap, Colorado
  2. 1.6 13 km SSE of Stonewall Gap, Colorado
  3. 1.6 17 km SSE of Stonewall Gap, Colorado
  4. 2.3 28 km NNE of Ute Park, New Mexico
  5. 2.6 23 km NE of Ute Park, New Mexico
  6. 4.0 25 km N of Cimarron, New Mexico
  7. 3.2 26 km N of Cimarron, New Mexico
  8. 2.1 12 km W of Aguilar, Colorado
  9. 1.8 7 km S of Stonewall Gap, Colorado
  10. 1.8 17 km SSW of Weston, Colorado
  11. 1.8 17 km SSW of Weston, Colorado
  12. 1.6 14 km SSE of Stonewall Gap, Colorado
  13. 1.5 12 km SSE of Stonewall Gap, Colorado
  14. 1.7 9 km NW of El Moro, Colorado
  15. 1.7 14 km S of Weston, 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 250 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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