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M 3.0ml

Colorado

· 5.0 km deep · released about 950 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Huerfano County 57 kmCostilla County 60 kmLas Animas County 65 kmColfax County 66 kmAlamosa County 100 kmTaos County 104 kmPueblo County 110 kmCuster County 114 kmOtero County 119 km
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When
Magnitude
M 3.0 (ml)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
4 reports · strongest reported intensity V
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Huerfano County, 57 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1065 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 4 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 950 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 16,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 11,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 950 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 37.1986, -104.7623. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Huerfano County, CO 57 km (35 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Huerfano County
Costilla County, CO 60 km (37 mi) E of here earthquakes near Costilla County
Las Animas County, CO 65 km (40 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 100 km (62 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Alamosa County
Taos County, NM 104 km (65 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. 1.7 11 km NE of Stonewall Gap, Colorado
  2. 1.7 6 km WNW of Hoehne, Colorado
  3. 1.5 13 km S of Stonewall Gap, Colorado
  4. 1.5 15 km SSW of Weston, Colorado
  5. 1.7 10 km SE of Walsenburg, Colorado
  6. 1.7 11 km SSE of Walsenburg, Colorado
  7. 1.9 23 km S of Weston, Colorado
  8. 1.6 12 km S of Weston, Colorado
  9. 1.5 10 km SSE of Walsenburg, Colorado
  10. 2.2 Colorado
  11. 1.6 Colorado
  12. 1.6 9 km WNW of Hoehne, Colorado
  13. 2.8 7 km NNW of El Moro, Colorado
  14. 1.5 Colorado
  15. 1.5 8 km N of Segundo, 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 89 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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