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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.4mwr

16 km S of Weston, Colorado

· 2.3 km deep · released about 1.9 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Colfax County 45 kmCostilla County 62 kmHuerfano County 79 kmLas Animas County 79 kmTaos County 85 kmAlamosa County 106 kmMora County 112 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 3.4 (mwr)
Depth
2.3 km below the surface
Felt
10 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Colfax County, 45 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 388 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 10 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1.9 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 89,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 4,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,800× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.4 about 1.9 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 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 36.9878, -104.8339. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Colfax County, NM 45 km (28 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Colfax County
Costilla County, CO 62 km (38 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Costilla County
Huerfano County, CO 79 km (49 mi) S of here earthquakes near Huerfano County
Las Animas County, CO 79 km (49 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Las Animas County
Taos County, NM 85 km (53 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Taos County
Alamosa County, CO 106 km (66 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Alamosa County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 6 km N of El Moro, Colorado
  2. 2.2 34 km NNE of Cimarron, New Mexico
  3. 2.6 33 km WSW of Raton, New Mexico
  4. 1.5 31 km NNE of Cimarron, New Mexico
  5. 1.6 16 km WSW of Raton, New Mexico
  6. 2.3 26 km S of Weston, Colorado
  7. 1.5 22 km NE of Red River, New Mexico
  8. 1.5 26 km S of Weston, Colorado
  9. 1.6 15 km SW of Weston, Colorado
  10. 2.9 8 km N of El Moro, Colorado
  11. 1.7 27 km SSW of Segundo, Colorado
  12. 1.6 24 km S of Weston, Colorado
  13. 1.5 26 km S of Weston, Colorado
  14. 1.7 25 km S of Segundo, Colorado
  15. 1.8 29 km NNE of Cimarron, 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.3 on 2023-03-10 — it released about 22 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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