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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.0md

16 km W of Culebra, Puerto Rico

· 21 km deep · released about 35 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 2.0 (md)
Depth
21 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Fajardo Municipio, 16 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3328 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 35 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 5.8 440,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 310,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 28× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 35 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 18.3095, -65.4616. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Fajardo Municipio, PR 16 km (10 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Fajardo Municipio
Culebra Municipio, PR 16 km (10 mi) W of here earthquakes near Culebra Municipio
Ceiba Municipio, PR 18 km (11 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Ceiba Municipio
Vieques Municipio, PR 21 km (13 mi) N of here earthquakes near Vieques Municipio
Luquillo Municipio, PR 27 km (17 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Luquillo Municipio
Naguabo Municipio, PR 31 km (19 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Naguabo Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.2 7 km WSW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  2. 2.8 15 km NNE of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.1 6 km S of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.9 1 km S of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  5. 3.1 35 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  6. 3.0 20 km NNW of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  7. 3.3 29 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.7 13 km W of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  9. 3.3 31 km NW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  10. 2.3 2 km ESE of Humacao, Puerto Rico
  11. 3.1 4 km W of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.9 37 km NE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.8 19 km SSW of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  14. 3.3 9 km SE of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.5 21 km SE of Esperanza, 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 4.3 on 2016-09-02 — it released about 2,500 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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