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M 2.5Md

4 km SSW of Palmarejo, Puerto Rico

· 15 km deep · released about 170 lb of TNT

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

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3575 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 18.0079, -67.0989. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lajas Municipio, PR 7 km (4 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Lajas Municipio
Cabo Rojo Municipio, PR 9 km (5 mi) E of here earthquakes near Cabo Rojo Municipio
San Germán Municipio, PR 13 km (8 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near San Germán Municipio
Hormigueros Municipio, PR 14 km (9 mi) S of here earthquakes near Hormigueros Municipio
Sabana Grande Municipio, PR 18 km (11 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Sabana Grande Municipio
Guánica Municipio, PR 20 km (12 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Guánica Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 2 km SSE of La Playa, Puerto Rico
  2. 1.9 3 km N of Sabana Eneas, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.0 21 km S of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.5 24 km SW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.3 13 km NW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.8 Mona Passage
  7. 2.1 2 km SSE of Lajas, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.3 7 km NE of Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico
  9. 1.9 11 km S of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico
  10. 1.8 13 km S of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.2 5 km NNE of Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.7 19 km WNW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  13. 1.9 4 km SE of Maricao, Puerto Rico
  14. 1.6 11 km SW of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.5 7 km SW of La Parguera, 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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