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M 2.0Md

18 km S of Ponce, Puerto Rico

· 18 km deep · released about 30 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (Md)
Depth
18 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Ponce Municipio, 17 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3638 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 30 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 32× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 30 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 17.8479, -66.5931. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Ponce Municipio, PR 17 km (11 mi) S of here earthquakes near Ponce Municipio
Juana Díaz Municipio, PR 20 km (12 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Juana Díaz Municipio
Peñuelas Municipio, PR 24 km (15 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Peñuelas Municipio
Santa Isabel Municipio, PR 25 km (15 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Santa Isabel Municipio
Guayanilla Municipio, PR 28 km (17 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Guayanilla Municipio
Villalba Municipio, PR 34 km (21 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Villalba Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.4 13 km SSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  2. 1.6 3 km W of Liborio Negron Torres, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.6 17 km S of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.2 4 km SSW of Central Aguirre, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.1 1 km SSE of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.8 1 km S of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.7 1 km SSE of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  8. 1.8 7 km NNE of Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico
  9. 1.7 1 km SE of Jayuya, Puerto Rico
  10. 1.7 8 km SE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  11. 1.7 13 km S of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.1 2 km NNE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.1 6 km SW of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.0 4 km NNE of Lluveras, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.0 21 km S of Guánica, 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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