QuakeIndex

Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

7 km SSW of Stonewall Gap, Colorado

· 5.0 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

Felt it? Tell USGS Check my area
10 km30 km60 km120 km N Costilla County 39 kmColfax County 65 kmHuerfano County 68 kmTaos County 76 kmAlamosa County 83 kmLas Animas County 94 kmConejos County 99 kmCuster County 116 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 1.7 (ml)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Costilla County, 39 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 507 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 11 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 89× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 37.0866, -105.0659. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Costilla County, CO 39 km (24 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Costilla County
Colfax County, NM 65 km (40 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Colfax County
Huerfano County, CO 68 km (42 mi) S of here earthquakes near Huerfano County
Taos County, NM 76 km (47 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Taos County
Alamosa County, CO 83 km (52 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Alamosa County
Las Animas County, CO 94 km (58 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Las Animas County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 6 km W of La Veta, Colorado
  2. 1.7 16 km S of Weston, Colorado
  3. 1.5 27 km S of Weston, Colorado
  4. 1.5 24 km S of Weston, Colorado
  5. 1.6 27 km SSW of Segundo, Colorado
  6. 1.7 29 km S of Segundo, Colorado
  7. 1.5 32 km WSW of Raton, New Mexico
  8. 2.1 28 km S of Weston, Colorado
  9. 1.6 28 km S of Segundo, Colorado
  10. 1.5 28 km S of Segundo, Colorado
  11. 1.6 5 km WSW of La Veta, Colorado
  12. 1.6 3 km WNW of La Veta, Colorado
  13. 1.5 29 km SSW of Segundo, Colorado
  14. 2.2 28 km SSW of Segundo, Colorado
  15. 1.7 25 km S of Weston, 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 7,900 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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