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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.6Md

66 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico

· 44 km deep · released about 240 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.6 (Md)
Depth
44 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Toa Baja Municipio, 70 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3576 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 240 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 63,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 45,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 240 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 19.0687, -66.0490. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Toa Baja Municipio, PR 70 km (43 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Toa Baja Municipio
Dorado Municipio, PR 70 km (43 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Dorado Municipio
Cataño Municipio, PR 70 km (44 mi) N of here earthquakes near Cataño Municipio
Loíza Municipio, PR 70 km (44 mi) N of here earthquakes near Loíza Municipio
San Juan Municipio, PR 72 km (45 mi) N of here earthquakes near San Juan Municipio
Carolina Municipio, PR 75 km (47 mi) N of here earthquakes near Carolina Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.8 71 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.5 20 km NNE of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.8 61 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.1 46 km NNE of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.8 53 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  6. 3.2 73 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  7. 3.0 74 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  8. 3.2 73 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.8 70 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.4 61 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.9 70 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.9 78 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.6 75 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  14. 3.0 76 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  15. 3.1 84 km N of Suárez, 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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