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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.6Md

14 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico

· 40 km deep · released about 240 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 2.6 (Md)
Depth
40 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Cataño Municipio, 18 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3473 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 240 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 63,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 45,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 240 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 18.5984, -66.1115. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Cataño Municipio, PR 18 km (11 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Cataño Municipio
Toa Baja Municipio, PR 18 km (11 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Toa Baja Municipio
San Juan Municipio, PR 20 km (12 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near San Juan Municipio
Dorado Municipio, PR 21 km (13 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Dorado Municipio
Loíza Municipio, PR 25 km (15 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Loíza Municipio
Carolina Municipio, PR 27 km (17 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Carolina Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.6 21 km NNE of Dorado, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.4 22 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.1 5 km ESE of Cataño, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.9 3 km N of Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.7 48 km N of Loíza, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.7 20 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.8 33 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico
  8. 1.6 6 km WNW of Palomas, Puerto Rico
  9. 3.0 22 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.7 42 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.6 27 km NNW of Loíza, Puerto Rico
  12. 3.1 1 km SW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.7 2 km WSW of Río Lajas, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.3 5 km NNW of Brenas, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.8 29 km N of Garrochales, 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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