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M 2.0Md

2 km NE of Yauco, Puerto Rico

· 13 km deep · released about 30 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (Md)
Depth
13 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Yauco Municipio, 5 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3536 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 18.0510, -66.8275. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Yauco Municipio, PR 5 km (3 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Yauco Municipio
Guayanilla Municipio, PR 6 km (4 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Guayanilla Municipio
Peñuelas Municipio, PR 11 km (7 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Peñuelas Municipio
Sabana Grande Municipio, PR 13 km (8 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Sabana Grande Municipio
Guánica Municipio, PR 15 km (9 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Guánica Municipio
Adjuntas Municipio, PR 16 km (10 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Adjuntas Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 0 km W of Luis Llorens Torres, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.1 4 km W of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.7 1 km ENE of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico
  4. 1.7 9 km S of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.8 5 km WNW of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.0 7 km W of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.8 12 km NW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.7 5 km E of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico
  9. 1.9 12 km SSW of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.9 4 km W of Maricao, Puerto Rico
  11. 3.0 3 km ESE of Luyando, Puerto Rico
  12. 1.8 6 km WNW of Coto Laurel, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.2 2 km SSW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.6 5 km NE of San Germán, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.0 12 km S of La Parguera, 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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