22 km S of Newkirk, New Mexico

2025-04-01 17:17 UTC · 5.0 km deep · released about 950 lb of TNT

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: 2025-04-01 17:17 UTC
Magnitude: M 3.0 (mb_lg)
Depth: 5.0 km below the surface
Felt: no reports yet
Nearest: Guadalupe County, 51 km W
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS 478 days ago · we first saw it 478 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

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.

Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 350,000× the energy of this one
Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 16,000× the energy of this one
Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 11,000× the energy of this one
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

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Epicentre 34.8678, -104.2282. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

Place	Distance	Direction
Guadalupe County, NM	51 km (32 mi)	E of here	earthquakes near Guadalupe County
De Baca County, NM	58 km (36 mi)	NNE of here	earthquakes near De Baca County
Quay County, NM	67 km (42 mi)	WSW of here	earthquakes near Quay County
San Miguel County, NM	86 km (53 mi)	SE of here	earthquakes near San Miguel County
Curry County, NM	87 km (54 mi)	WNW of here	earthquakes near Curry County
Harding County, NM	115 km (72 mi)	SSW of here	earthquakes near Harding County

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

Aftershocks so far

1 earthquake has been recorded within 50 km since this one.

2.5 16 km NE of House, New Mexico 05:57 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 10:05 UTC. QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

On USGS

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