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M 2.3Md

2 km ENE of Potala Pastillo, Puerto Rico

· 16 km deep · released about 85 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (Md)
Depth
16 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Juana Díaz Municipio, 1 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3540 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 17.9985, -66.4776. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Juana Díaz Municipio, PR 1 km (1 mi) E of here earthquakes near Juana Díaz Municipio
Santa Isabel Municipio, PR 11 km (7 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Santa Isabel Municipio
Ponce Municipio, PR 14 km (8 mi) E of here earthquakes near Ponce Municipio
Villalba Municipio, PR 15 km (9 mi) S of here earthquakes near Villalba Municipio
Coamo Municipio, PR 17 km (11 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Coamo Municipio
Salinas Municipio, PR 23 km (14 mi) W of here earthquakes near Salinas Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 8 km ESE of Jayuya, Puerto Rico
  2. 1.9 1 km S of Liborio Negron Torres, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.2 2 km NNW of Lluveras, Puerto Rico
  4. 1.9 Puerto Rico region
  5. 1.8 2 km WSW of Villalba, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.4 5 km S of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico
  7. 1.9 8 km NNE of Lluveras, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.3 4 km WNW of Villalba, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.4 14 km SSW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico
  10. 1.8 3 km S of Cayey, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.5 3 km SE of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.7 1 km S of Las Ochenta, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.0 3 km NW of Villalba, Puerto Rico
  14. 1.9 7 km WSW of Orocovis, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.2 23 km S of Ponce, 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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