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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.6ml

44 km SSW of San Rafael, New Mexico

· 8.0 km deep · released about 240 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Cibola County 23 kmMcKinley County 98 kmCatron County 98 kmValencia County 111 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 2.6 (ml)
Depth
8.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Cibola County, 23 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 430 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 240 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 63,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 45,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 240 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 34.7261, -108.0260. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Cibola County, NM 23 km (14 mi) S of here earthquakes near Cibola County
McKinley County, NM 98 km (61 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near McKinley County
Catron County, NM 98 km (61 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Catron County
Valencia County, NM 111 km (69 mi) W of here earthquakes near Valencia County
Socorro County, NM 129 km (80 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Socorro County
Sandoval County, NM 149 km (92 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Sandoval County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.4 19 km ENE of Pie Town, New Mexico
  2. 2.7 44 km N of Pie Town, 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.

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