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M 2.3Md

27 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico

· 32 km deep · released about 85 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (Md)
Depth
32 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Fajardo Municipio, 23 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3646 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 85 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 130,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 11× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 85 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 18.5928, -65.5976. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Fajardo Municipio, PR 23 km (14 mi) N of here earthquakes near Fajardo Municipio
Luquillo Municipio, PR 28 km (17 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Luquillo Municipio
Río Grande Municipio, PR 32 km (20 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Río Grande Municipio
Ceiba Municipio, PR 38 km (24 mi) N of here earthquakes near Ceiba Municipio
Loíza Municipio, PR 40 km (25 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Loíza Municipio
Canóvanas Municipio, PR 42 km (26 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Canóvanas Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.0 7 km N of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.2 9 km N of Loíza, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.0 2 km E of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.8 41 km NNE of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.1 11 km E of Luis M. Cintron, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.5 50 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.9 6 km NE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.3 25 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.0 3 km NE of Benitez, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.1 62 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.9 38 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.1 1 km WSW of Río Blanco, Puerto Rico
  13. 1.9 1 km NE of Río Blanco, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.3 1 km N of Antón Ruiz, Puerto Rico
  15. 1.9 5 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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