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M 2.6md

6 km ENE of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico

· 101 km deep · released about 250 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.6 (md)
Depth
101 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Vega Baja Municipio, 6 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3419 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 250 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 61,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 43,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 3.8× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 250 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 18.4940, -66.4356. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Vega Baja Municipio, PR 6 km (4 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Vega Baja Municipio
Manatí Municipio, PR 8 km (5 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Manatí Municipio
Vega Alta Municipio, PR 12 km (8 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Vega Alta Municipio
Barceloneta Municipio, PR 13 km (8 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Barceloneta Municipio
Dorado Municipio, PR 18 km (11 mi) W of here earthquakes near Dorado Municipio
Florida Municipio, PR 19 km (12 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Florida Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.8 3 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  2. 3.4 29 km N of Dorado, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.1 0 km SSW of Cayuco, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.8 17 km N of Carrizales, Puerto Rico
  5. 3.1 1 km NW of Bayamón, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.7 15 km NNE of Hatillo, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.3 1 km S of Río Lajas, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.6 21 km NNE of Dorado, Puerto Rico
  9. 3.0 10 km NNW of Camuy, Puerto Rico
  10. 3.1 5 km ESE of Cataño, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.9 3 km N of Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.1 9 km ESE of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.7 20 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.2 26 km N of Arecibo, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.8 33 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, 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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