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M 2.4md

36 km WNW of Rincón, Puerto Rico

· 15 km deep · released about 100 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.4 (md)
Depth
15 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Rincón Municipio, 36 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3089 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 100 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 140,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 100,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 9.1× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.4 about 100 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 18.4873, -67.5590. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Rincón Municipio, PR 36 km (23 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 41 km (26 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 44 km (27 mi) W of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio
Añasco Municipio, PR 50 km (31 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio
Moca Municipio, PR 52 km (32 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Moca Municipio
Mayagüez Municipio, PR 57 km (35 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Mayagüez Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.6 54 km ESE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  2. 2.6 17 km WNW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.0 45 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.5 28 km W of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  5. 1.7 21 km W of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  6. 3.1 55 km ESE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  7. 2.8 56 km ENE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  8. 2.0 38 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.9 4 km NW of Caban, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.9 50 km WNW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.8 25 km SW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.7 15 km WNW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  13. 3.0 54 km E of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  14. 3.1 52 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.5 50 km NW of San Antonio, 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 4.4 on 2017-10-01 — it released about 1,100 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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