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M 2.6ml

New Mexico

· 5.0 km deep · released about 240 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Eddy County 15 kmChaves County 91 kmLea County 99 kmLoving County 113 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
Eddy County, 15 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1588 days ago

A magnitude 2.6 earthquake was recorded at New Mexico at 06:44 UTC on 2022-03-25. This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

Earthquakes near other towns within 30 km: La Huerta, Carlsbad, Atoka.

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 32.5482, -104.4263. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection from the epicentre
Eddy County, NM 15 km (9 mi) SE earthquakes near Eddy County
Chaves County, NM 91 km (56 mi) N earthquakes near Chaves County
Lea County, NM 99 km (61 mi) ENE earthquakes near Lea County
Loving County, TX 113 km (70 mi) SE earthquakes near Loving County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.3 35 km SSE of Hope, New Mexico
  2. 2.5 34 km SSE of Hope, New Mexico
  3. 2.7 33 km SSE of Hope, New Mexico
  4. 2.4 32 km SSE of Hope, New Mexico
  5. 3.3 35 km SSE of Hope, New Mexico
  6. 3.5 37 km W of Carlsbad, New Mexico
  7. 2.8 33 km SSE of Hope, New Mexico
  8. 2.8 33 km SSE of Hope, New Mexico
  9. 2.9 12 km WSW of Carlsbad, New Mexico
  10. 2.6 8 km SSW of Atoka, New Mexico
  11. 2.7 32 km SSE of Hope, New Mexico
  12. 2.4 33 km SW of Atoka, New Mexico
  13. 2.8 13 km W of Whites City, New Mexico
  14. 2.8 12 km W of Whites City, New Mexico
  15. 3.2 12 km S of Atoka, 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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