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M 2.5Md

4 km S of La Playa, Puerto Rico

· 27 km deep · released about 170 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.5 (Md)
Depth
27 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Añasco Municipio, 7 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3693 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 170 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 89,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 63,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 5.6× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.5 about 170 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 18.2514, -67.1825. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Añasco Municipio, PR 7 km (4 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio
Rincón Municipio, PR 12 km (8 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 14 km (9 mi) S of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Hormigueros Municipio, PR 15 km (9 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Hormigueros Municipio
Moca Municipio, PR 18 km (11 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Moca Municipio
Las Marías Municipio, PR 22 km (14 mi) W of here earthquakes near Las Marías Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.0 19 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.0 2 km E of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.1 5 km SW of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico
  4. 1.6 11 km E of Maricao, Puerto Rico
  5. 1.5 8 km SW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.2 14 km N of Quebradillas, Puerto Rico
  7. 1.7 14 km NW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.8 Mona Passage
  9. 2.4 7 km ENE of Hormigueros, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.1 5 km E of Hormigueros, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.3 5 km E of Hormigueros, Puerto Rico
  12. 1.6 4 km SW of Fuig, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.4 6 km N of San Germán, Puerto Rico
  14. 1.8 5 km E of Espino, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.6 5 km SW of Liborio Negron Torres, Puerto Rico

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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