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M 1.7ml

23 km SSW of Sequndo, Colorado

· 5.0 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Colfax County 35 kmCostilla County 71 kmLas Animas County 79 kmTaos County 85 kmHuerfano County 88 kmMora County 104 kmAlamosa County 115 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
Colfax County, 35 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 295 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 36.9112, -104.7781. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Colfax County, NM 35 km (22 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Colfax County
Costilla County, CO 71 km (44 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Costilla County
Las Animas County, CO 79 km (49 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Las Animas County
Taos County, NM 85 km (53 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Taos County
Huerfano County, CO 88 km (55 mi) S of here earthquakes near Huerfano County
Mora County, NM 104 km (65 mi) N of here earthquakes near Mora 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. 1.5 31 km NNE of Cimarron, New Mexico
  2. 1.5 30 km SSW of Segundo, Colorado
  3. 2.0 32 km WSW of Raton, New Mexico
  4. 2.2 34 km SSW of Segundo, Colorado
  5. 1.7 32 km N of Cimarron, New Mexico
  6. 2.8 32 km SSW of Segundo, Colorado
  7. 2.0 34 km S of Weston, Colorado
  8. 3.8 32 km WSW of Raton, New Mexico
  9. 1.8 32 km N of Cimarron, New Mexico
  10. 1.5 32 km N of Cimarron, New Mexico
  11. 1.8 17 km SW of Weston, Colorado
  12. 2.8 14 km SSE of Stonewall Gap, Colorado
  13. 1.5 23 km NNE of Cimarron, New Mexico
  14. 2.4 15 km S of Stonewall Gap, Colorado
  15. 1.6 32 km N 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 7,900 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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