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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.0ml

14 km NE of Fruita, Colorado

· 1.3 km deep · released about 30 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mesa County 29 kmGarfield County 72 kmDelta County 78 kmRio Blanco County 88 kmGrand County 88 kmMontrose County 98 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (ml)
Depth
1.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mesa County, 29 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 19 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 30 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 32× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 30 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 39.2489, -108.6150. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mesa County, CO 29 km (18 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Mesa County
Garfield County, CO 72 km (45 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Delta County, CO 78 km (48 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Delta County
Rio Blanco County, CO 88 km (55 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Rio Blanco County
Grand County, UT 88 km (55 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Grand County
Montrose County, CO 98 km (61 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Montrose 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.

  1. 2.3 15 km WSW of Collbran, Colorado

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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