QuakeIndex

Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.1ml

New Mexico

· 5.0 km deep · released about 1,300 lb of TNT

Felt it? Tell USGS Check my area
10 km30 km60 km120 km N Eddy County 13 kmChaves County 95 kmLea County 101 kmLoving County 111 kmCulberson County 119 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 3.1 (ml)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
3 reports · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Eddy County, 13 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1147 days ago

A magnitude 3.1 earthquake was recorded at New Mexico at 22:38 UTC on 2023-06-05. 3 people have reported feeling it to USGS. 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 1,300 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 250,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 11,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 7,900× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.1 about 1,300 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.4× 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 32.5122, -104.4348. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection from the epicentre
Eddy County, NM 13 km (8 mi) ESE earthquakes near Eddy County
Chaves County, NM 95 km (59 mi) N earthquakes near Chaves County
Lea County, NM 101 km (63 mi) ENE earthquakes near Lea County
Loving County, TX 111 km (69 mi) SE earthquakes near Loving County
Culberson County, TX 119 km (74 mi) S earthquakes near Culberson County
Hudspeth County, TX 148 km (92 mi) SW earthquakes near Hudspeth 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. 3.4 30 km NW of Whites City, New Mexico
  2. 2.5 23 km WNW of Whites City, New Mexico
  3. 2.8 38 km SSE of Hope, New Mexico
  4. 2.5 12 km NW of Whites City, New Mexico
  5. 2.6 31 km WNW of Whites City, New Mexico
  6. 2.8 7 km ESE of Livingston Wheeler, New Mexico
  7. 3.0 7 km ESE of Livingston Wheeler, New Mexico
  8. 2.5 18 km NNW of Whites City, New Mexico
  9. 3.5 19 km NNW of Whites City, New Mexico
  10. 3.3 35 km SSE of Hope, New Mexico
  11. 2.5 34 km SSE of Hope, New Mexico
  12. 2.7 33 km SSE of Hope, New Mexico
  13. 2.4 32 km SSE of Hope, New Mexico
  14. 3.3 35 km SSE of Hope, New Mexico
  15. 3.5 37 km W of Carlsbad, 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.

On USGS

QuakeIndex does not issue warnings. For earthquake early warning see ShakeAlert.