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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.3Md

14 km W of Esperanza, Puerto Rico

· 23 km deep · released about 85 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (Md)
Depth
23 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Ceiba Municipio, 18 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3545 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 18.0923, -65.6064. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Ceiba Municipio, PR 18 km (11 mi) S of here earthquakes near Ceiba Municipio
Vieques Municipio, PR 19 km (12 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Vieques Municipio
Naguabo Municipio, PR 19 km (12 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Naguabo Municipio
Humacao Municipio, PR 20 km (12 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Humacao Municipio
Yabucoa Municipio, PR 27 km (17 mi) E of here earthquakes near Yabucoa Municipio
Las Piedras Municipio, PR 30 km (19 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Las Piedras Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.4 24 km SW of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  2. 1.6 15 km SW of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.5 27 km SSE of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.9 32 km SSW of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.3 15 km ESE of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.4 20 km SE of El Negro, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.4 23 km SE of El Negro, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.2 22 km SSW of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.5 10 km S of Emajagua, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.3 10 km SSE of Emajagua, Puerto Rico
  11. 3.0 18 km SSE of Lamboglia, Puerto Rico
  12. 1.8 9 km SSE of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.4 29 km SE of El Negro, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.2 29 km SE of El Negro, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.5 13 km ESE of Esperanza, 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 4.6 on 2016-12-05 — it released about 2,800 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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