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M 2.0Md

30 km W of Rincón, Puerto Rico

· 18 km deep · released about 30 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (Md)
Depth
18 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Rincón Municipio, 30 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3683 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 18.3131, -67.5345. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Rincón Municipio, PR 30 km (19 mi) W of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 37 km (23 mi) W of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Añasco Municipio, PR 43 km (27 mi) W of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio
Mayagüez Municipio, PR 45 km (28 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Mayagüez Municipio
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 45 km (28 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio
Hormigueros Municipio, PR 48 km (30 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Hormigueros Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.1 67 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.1 22 km NW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.4 24 km NW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.7 19 km WNW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  5. 3.4 52 km ESE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  6. 2.8 32 km W of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.5 7 km SSW of La Playa, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.5 7 km ENE of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.9 Mona Passage
  10. 3.0 19 km WNW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.0 2 km NW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.5 2 km SSW of La Playa, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.0 10 km W of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico
  14. 3.0 Mona Passage
  15. 3.0 47 km NW of Aguadilla, 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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