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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5ml

6 km ESE of El Moro, Colorado

· 5.0 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Las Animas County 33 kmColfax County 69 kmHuerfano County 73 kmCostilla County 92 kmOtero County 96 kmPueblo County 107 kmUnion County 114 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 1.5 (ml)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Las Animas County, 33 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2072 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 5.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 180× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.4 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 37.2063, -104.3949. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Las Animas County, CO 33 km (21 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Las Animas County
Colfax County, NM 69 km (43 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Colfax County
Huerfano County, CO 73 km (45 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Huerfano County
Costilla County, CO 92 km (57 mi) E of here earthquakes near Costilla County
Otero County, CO 96 km (60 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Otero County
Pueblo County, CO 107 km (66 mi) S of here earthquakes near Pueblo County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.8 4 km NNW of El Moro, Colorado
  2. 2.0 6 km NNW of El Moro, Colorado
  3. 1.8 27 km ENE of Hoehne, Colorado
  4. 2.4 19 km S of Weston, Colorado
  5. 2.0 17 km E of Lynn, Colorado
  6. 2.2 7 km WNW of Hoehne, Colorado
  7. 1.6 13 km NNE of Hoehne, Colorado
  8. 1.5 13 km NNW of Cokedale, Colorado
  9. 1.6 15 km W of Aguilar, Colorado
  10. 1.6 21 km NE of Hoehne, Colorado
  11. 1.7 14 km NNE of Hoehne, Colorado
  12. 1.8 24 km NE of Hoehne, Colorado
  13. 1.6 18 km NNE of Hoehne, Colorado
  14. 1.8 11 km NE of Hoehne, Colorado
  15. 1.6 17 km NNE of Hoehne, 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 4.0 on 2017-12-30 — it released about 5,600 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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