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M 2.0Md

7 km SE of Ponce, Puerto Rico

· 2.0 km deep · released about 30 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (Md)
Depth
2.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Ponce 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 17.9647, -66.5777. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Ponce Municipio, PR 5 km (3 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Ponce Municipio
Juana Díaz Municipio, PR 10 km (6 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Juana Díaz Municipio
Peñuelas Municipio, PR 17 km (11 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Peñuelas Municipio
Santa Isabel Municipio, PR 20 km (13 mi) W of here earthquakes near Santa Isabel Municipio
Villalba Municipio, PR 22 km (13 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Villalba Municipio
Guayanilla Municipio, PR 24 km (15 mi) E of here earthquakes near Guayanilla Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 7 km WSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.2 23 km S of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.3 0 km WNW of Liborio Negron Torres, Puerto Rico
  4. 1.9 13 km S of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.3 15 km S of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.8 14 km SSE of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.3 20 km SSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  8. 1.8 1 km SSE of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.2 0 km W of Luis Llorens Torres, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.7 1 km ENE of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico
  11. 1.7 9 km S of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.7 5 km E of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico
  13. 1.8 6 km WNW of Coto Laurel, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.2 2 km SSW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.6 5 km NE of San Germán, 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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