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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.8Md

106 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico

· 11 km deep · released about 480 lb of TNT

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Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 2.8 (Md)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Loíza Municipio, 108 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3508 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 19.4169, -65.9531. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Loíza Municipio, PR 108 km (67 mi) N of here earthquakes near Loíza Municipio
Toa Baja Municipio, PR 110 km (68 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Toa Baja Municipio
Dorado Municipio, PR 110 km (68 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Dorado Municipio
Cataño Municipio, PR 110 km (68 mi) N of here earthquakes near Cataño Municipio
San Juan Municipio, PR 111 km (69 mi) N of here earthquakes near San Juan Municipio
Carolina Municipio, PR 113 km (70 mi) N of here earthquakes near Carolina Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.1 109 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.8 96 km NNE of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.2 112 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  4. 3.2 108 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  5. 3.3 130 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  6. 3.1 Puerto Rico region
  7. 2.9 Puerto Rico region
  8. 3.0 71 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  9. 3.4 116 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico
  10. 3.2 90 km N of Loíza, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.9 75 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  12. 3.2 104 km N of Loíza, Puerto Rico
  13. 3.0 83 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.7 74 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  15. 3.2 114 km N of Suárez, 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 4.4 on 2016-10-23 — it released about 250 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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