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M 2.2Md

83 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico

Yes. A magnitude 2.2 earthquake was recorded 83 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico, at 4:14 pm AST on 14 April 2017 (20:14 UTC), 9.0 km deep.

· 9.0 km deep · released about 60 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 2.2 (Md)
Depth
9.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Fajardo Municipio, 78 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3498 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

At this magnitude and depth, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 16 km (10 mi) from the epicentre. Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 60 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 250,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 180,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 16× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.2 about 60 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km since 2016 was M 4.3 on 2016-09-04 — about 1,400 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 3 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km:

  1. 5.1 122 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico · 39 km NNE of this epicentre
  2. 5.1 92 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico · 38 km WNW of this epicentre
  3. 5.0 73 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico · 11 km SW of this epicentre

Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.

Where

Epicentre 19.0709, -65.4175. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection from the epicentre
Fajardo Municipio, PR 78 km (49 mi) SSW earthquakes near Fajardo Municipio
Culebra Municipio, PR 84 km (52 mi) S earthquakes near Culebra Municipio
Luquillo Municipio, PR 84 km (52 mi) SSW earthquakes near Luquillo Municipio
Río Grande Municipio, PR 87 km (54 mi) SSW earthquakes near Río Grande Municipio
Loíza Municipio, PR 89 km (55 mi) SW earthquakes near Loíza Municipio
Ceiba Municipio, PR 93 km (58 mi) SSW earthquakes near Ceiba 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. 1.7 66 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.3 53 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.1 82 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.1 87 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico
  5. 3.3 82 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.5 37 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  7. 3.4 63 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  8. 2.1 64 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico
  9. 1.8 70 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  10. 2.2 124 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  11. 2.6 83 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.3 107 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  13. 2.8 84 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  14. 3.3 78 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  15. 3.2 95 km N of Culebra, 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.

On USGS

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