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M 2.0ml

Colorado

· 6.5 km deep · released about 30 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Huerfano County 57 kmCostilla County 61 kmLas Animas County 64 kmColfax County 66 kmAlamosa County 101 kmTaos County 105 kmPueblo County 109 kmCuster County 114 kmOtero County 118 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (ml)
Depth
6.5 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Huerfano County, 57 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1231 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 30 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 32× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 30 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 37.2020, -104.7466. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Huerfano County, CO 57 km (36 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Huerfano County
Costilla County, CO 61 km (38 mi) E of here earthquakes near Costilla County
Las Animas County, CO 64 km (39 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Las Animas County
Colfax County, NM 66 km (41 mi) N of here earthquakes near Colfax County
Alamosa County, CO 101 km (63 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Alamosa County
Taos County, NM 105 km (66 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Taos 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. 1.5 32 km S of Segundo, Colorado
  2. 2.8 8 km N of El Moro, Colorado
  3. 3.2 6 km NW of El Moro, Colorado
  4. 2.3 7 km N of El Moro, Colorado
  5. 2.1 10 km SW of Weston, Colorado
  6. 1.6 13 km SW of Weston, Colorado
  7. 1.9 New Mexico
  8. 2.6 16 km SSW of Weston, Colorado
  9. 1.5 New Mexico
  10. 2.1 7 km WNW of Hoehne, Colorado
  11. 1.5 10 km NNE of Weston, Colorado
  12. 1.7 31 km S of Segundo, Colorado
  13. 2.8 18 km S of Stonewall Gap, Colorado
  14. 3.1 15 km SW of Weston, Colorado
  15. 2.5 7 km N of El Moro, 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 4.3 on 2023-03-10 — it released about 2,800 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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