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M 2.5Md

2 km SSW of La Playa, Puerto Rico

· 29 km deep · released about 170 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.5 (Md)
Depth
29 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Añasco Municipio, 7 km ENE
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 18.2707, -67.1958. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Añasco Municipio, PR 7 km (4 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio
Rincón Municipio, PR 10 km (6 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 12 km (7 mi) S of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Moca Municipio, PR 17 km (11 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Moca Municipio
Hormigueros Municipio, PR 17 km (11 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Hormigueros Municipio
Las Marías Municipio, PR 24 km (15 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Las Marías Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.4 14 km W of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  2. 1.9 2 km NNW of Hormigueros, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.1 6 km SW of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico
  4. 1.6 0 km ENE of Lajas, Puerto Rico
  5. 3.1 Mona Passage
  6. 1.6 2 km SSW of Hormigueros, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.5 36 km NW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.0 4 km NNE of Lluveras, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.3 3 km SSW of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.3 2 km SSE of La Playa, Puerto Rico
  11. 1.9 3 km N of Sabana Eneas, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.5 24 km SW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.3 13 km NW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.8 Mona Passage
  15. 2.1 2 km SSE of Lajas, 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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