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M 2.4Md

12 km S of Lares, Puerto Rico

· 6.0 km deep · released about 120 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.4 (Md)
Depth
6.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Maricao Municipio, 8 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3663 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 18.1840, -66.8626. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Maricao Municipio, PR 8 km (5 mi) E of here earthquakes near Maricao Municipio
Lares Municipio, PR 10 km (6 mi) S of here earthquakes near Lares Municipio
Yauco Municipio, PR 11 km (7 mi) N of here earthquakes near Yauco Municipio
Adjuntas Municipio, PR 11 km (7 mi) W of here earthquakes near Adjuntas Municipio
Las Marías Municipio, PR 13 km (8 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Las Marías Municipio
Sabana Grande Municipio, PR 14 km (9 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Sabana Grande Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 3 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  2. 1.9 13 km S of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.0 0 km SSW of Las Ollas, Puerto Rico
  4. 1.9 3 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.1 2 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  6. 1.8 5 km S of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.2 1 km E of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.0 18 km S of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.3 16 km S of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.5 7 km SSW of La Playa, Puerto Rico
  11. 1.9 4 km WNW of Fuig, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.5 7 km ENE of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.7 9 km N of Animas, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.4 13 km S of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  15. 1.8 9 km SSE of Maria Antonia, 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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