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M 2.3md

6 km ENE of Red Mesa, Arizona

· 4.0 km deep · released about 72 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Montezuma County 72 kmSan Juan County 79 kmSan Juan County 103 kmDolores County 107 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (md)
Depth
4.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Montezuma County, 72 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2072 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 72 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 210,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 150,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 13× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 72 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 37.0082, -109.2987. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Montezuma County, CO 72 km (45 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Montezuma County
San Juan County, UT 79 km (49 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near San Juan County
San Juan County, NM 103 km (64 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near San Juan County
Dolores County, CO 107 km (66 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Dolores County
San Miguel County, CO 135 km (84 mi) SW of here earthquakes near San Miguel County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.5 13 km NNE of Round Rock, Arizona
  2. 2.0 3 km ESE of Montezuma Creek, Utah
  3. 1.9 12 km S of White Mesa, Utah

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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