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M 2.8ml

16 km WNW of Abeytas, New Mexico

· 11 km deep · released about 480 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Valencia County 25 kmSocorro County 61 kmBernalillo County 63 kmTorrance County 99 kmCibola County 103 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 2.8 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Valencia County, 25 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 27 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 480 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 32,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 22,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.8 about 480 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 34.5383, -106.9678. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Valencia County, NM 25 km (15 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Valencia County
Socorro County, NM 61 km (38 mi) N of here earthquakes near Socorro County
Bernalillo County, NM 63 km (39 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Bernalillo County
Torrance County, NM 99 km (61 mi) W of here earthquakes near Torrance County
Cibola County, NM 103 km (64 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Cibola County
Santa Fe County, NM 142 km (88 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Santa Fe County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.7 2 km NNW of Las Nutrias, New Mexico
  2. 3.0 16 km WSW of Pueblitos, New Mexico
  3. 3.0 15 km WSW of Pueblitos, New Mexico
  4. 2.8 15 km W of Pueblitos, New Mexico
  5. 2.6 7 km WNW of Veguita, New Mexico
  6. 3.6 4 km WNW of Abeytas, New Mexico
  7. 2.6 4 km WNW of Abeytas, New Mexico
  8. 2.7 14 km NW of Abeytas, New Mexico
  9. 3.7 6 km WNW of Veguita, New Mexico
  10. 3.2 6 km NW of Abeytas, New Mexico
  11. 2.9 3 km NNE of Abeytas, New Mexico
  12. 3.6 2 km WNW of Las Nutrias, New Mexico
  13. 3.9 7 km NNW of Abeytas, New Mexico
  14. 2.7 11 km ESE of Las Nutrias, New Mexico
  15. 3.1 5 km ESE of Las Nutrias, 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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