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M 2.2md

9 km SSW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico

· 12 km deep · released about 52 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.2 (md)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Guayanilla Municipio, 11 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3166 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 52 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 5.8 290,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 200,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 18× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.2 about 52 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 17.9160, -66.7441. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Guayanilla Municipio, PR 11 km (7 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Guayanilla Municipio
Peñuelas Municipio, PR 12 km (8 mi) S of here earthquakes near Peñuelas Municipio
Ponce Municipio, PR 17 km (11 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Ponce Municipio
Guánica Municipio, PR 19 km (12 mi) E of here earthquakes near Guánica Municipio
Yauco Municipio, PR 22 km (14 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Yauco Municipio
Juana Díaz Municipio, PR 28 km (18 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Juana Díaz Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.7 1 km NE of Jauca, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.0 6 km E of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  3. 1.9 7 km WSW of Orocovis, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.5 1 km WSW of Liborio Negron Torres, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.1 16 km SSW of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.3 3 km SW of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.4 13 km SSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.5 4 km ESE of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.2 5 km SSW of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.0 14 km S of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.4 8 km SSW of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  12. 1.6 7 km SSW of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  13. 1.7 3 km N of Monte Grande, Puerto Rico
  14. 1.7 2 km S of Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico
  15. 1.9 20 km S of Indios, 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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