QuakeIndex

Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.5md

23 km SSE of Arroyo, Puerto Rico

· 3.0 km deep · released about 190 lb of TNT

Felt it? Tell USGS Check my area
10 km30 km60 km120 km N Arroyo Municipio 23 kmPatillas Municipio 26 kmMaunabo Municipio 28 kmGuayama Municipio 28 kmYabucoa Municipio 35 kmSalinas Municipio 37 kmCayey Municipio 41 kmSan Lorenzo Municipio 42 kmHumacao Municipio 46 km
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 2.5 (md)
Depth
3.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Arroyo Municipio, 23 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3225 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 190 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 80,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 57,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 5.1× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.5 about 190 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 17.7681, -65.9880. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Arroyo Municipio, PR 23 km (15 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Arroyo Municipio
Patillas Municipio, PR 26 km (16 mi) S of here earthquakes near Patillas Municipio
Maunabo Municipio, PR 28 km (17 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Maunabo Municipio
Guayama Municipio, PR 28 km (17 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Guayama Municipio
Yabucoa Municipio, PR 35 km (22 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Yabucoa Municipio
Salinas Municipio, PR 37 km (23 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Salinas Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 2 km ESE of Humacao, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.0 9 km SSW of Central Aguirre, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.2 9 km SSE of Jobos, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.4 14 km SSE of Central Aguirre, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.7 1 km NE of Jauca, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.7 1 km S of G. L. Garcia, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.7 10 km S of Jobos, Puerto Rico
  8. 1.5 3 km SSW of Arroyo, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.4 5 km N of Yaurel, Puerto Rico
  10. 3.0 4 km SE of G. L. Garcia, Puerto Rico
  11. 1.5 10 km S of Jobos, Puerto Rico
  12. 3.1 4 km SSE of Palo Seco, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.8 18 km SSE of Arroyo, Puerto Rico
  14. 1.6 20 km S of Arroyo, Puerto Rico
  15. 3.1 12 km SE of Punta Santiago, 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 4.6 on 2016-12-05 — it released about 1,300 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

QuakeIndex does not issue warnings. For earthquake early warning see ShakeAlert.