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M 2.3md

5 km WNW of Las Marías, Puerto Rico

· 19 km deep · released about 88 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (md)
Depth
19 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Las Marías Municipio, 8 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2922 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 88 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 170,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 120,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 11× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 88 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 18.2668, -67.0425. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Las Marías Municipio, PR 8 km (5 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Las Marías Municipio
Añasco Municipio, PR 10 km (6 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio
San Sebastián Municipio, PR 11 km (7 mi) SW of here earthquakes near San Sebastián Municipio
Moca Municipio, PR 13 km (8 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Moca Municipio
Maricao Municipio, PR 15 km (10 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Maricao Municipio
Hormigueros Municipio, PR 17 km (10 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Hormigueros Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 2 km SSW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico
  2. 3.2 Puerto Rico region
  3. 2.4 5 km NW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  4. 1.7 4 km SSW of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.0 4 km SSW of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.1 2 km SSE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.5 5 km W of Hormigueros, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.5 11 km N of Carrizales, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.2 15 km NNE of Isabela, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.6 7 km SSW of La Playa, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.0 12 km SW of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.5 3 km ENE of Isabela, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.1 0 km WSW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  14. 1.6 9 km S of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.1 3 km WNW of Maricao, 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 2017-10-14 — it released about 970 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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