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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.8Md

48 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico

· 7.0 km deep · released about 480 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.8 (Md)
Depth
7.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Aguadilla Municipio, 48 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3495 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 480 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 32,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 22,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.8 about 480 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 18.8588, -67.3578. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 48 km (30 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio
Isabela Municipio, PR 55 km (34 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Isabela Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 57 km (35 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Rincón Municipio, PR 59 km (37 mi) N of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Moca Municipio, PR 61 km (38 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Moca Municipio
Quebradillas Municipio, PR 63 km (39 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Quebradillas 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. 2.9 38 km WNW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  2. 1.8 35 km WNW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.0 36 km WNW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.6 34 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.1 39 km NW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  6. 3.0 43 km WNW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.6 35 km NW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.7 33 km WNW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.9 45 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico
  10. 3.0 90 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  11. 3.1 48 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.8 31 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico
  13. 3.0 49 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.8 42 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico
  15. 3.3 48 km N of Isabela, 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.0 on 2016-02-13 — it released about 63 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

On USGS

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