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M 2.4Md

Puerto Rico region

· 53 km deep · released about 120 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Culebra Municipio 54 kmFajardo Municipio 61 kmLuquillo Municipio 71 kmCeiba Municipio 75 kmRío Grande Municipio 77 kmVieques Municipio 79 kmNaguabo Municipio 86 kmLoíza Municipio 86 kmCanóvanas Municipio 88 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.4 (Md)
Depth
53 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Culebra Municipio, 54 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3740 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 120 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 130,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 89,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 7.9× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.4 about 120 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 18.8090, -65.2242. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Culebra Municipio, PR 54 km (34 mi) N of here earthquakes near Culebra Municipio
Fajardo Municipio, PR 61 km (38 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Fajardo Municipio
Luquillo Municipio, PR 71 km (44 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Luquillo Municipio
Ceiba Municipio, PR 75 km (46 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Ceiba Municipio
Río Grande Municipio, PR 77 km (48 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Río Grande Municipio
Vieques Municipio, PR 79 km (49 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Vieques Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 68 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  2. 2.3 73 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  3. 3.0 36 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.5 83 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  5. 2.9 53 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.8 67 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.1 55 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.9 63 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  9. 2.7 75 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.7 80 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  11. 2.2 60 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  12. 2.5 82 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.7 32 km NE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.3 56 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  15. 2.2 49 km N of Culebra, 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.0 on 2016-06-29 — it released about 250 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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