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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.6md

7 km SSW of La Playa, Puerto Rico

· 30 km deep · released about 210 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 2.6 (md)
Depth
30 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Añasco Municipio, 11 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2987 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 210 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 72,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 51,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4.6× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 210 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 18.2268, -67.2160. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Añasco Municipio, PR 11 km (7 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio
Rincón Municipio, PR 13 km (8 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Hormigueros Municipio, PR 15 km (9 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Hormigueros Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 17 km (10 mi) S of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Moca Municipio, PR 22 km (14 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Moca Municipio
San Germán Municipio, PR 23 km (14 mi) NW of here earthquakes near San Germán Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 3 km SSE of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.4 40 km WNW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.6 39 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  4. 1.8 2 km W of La Playa, Puerto Rico
  5. 1.8 6 km W of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  6. 1.5 3 km NNW of Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico
  7. 1.8 7 km SSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.5 12 km NW of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.2 18 km W of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  10. 1.7 7 km W of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  11. 1.6 4 km SSW of Palmarejo, Puerto Rico
  12. 1.8 8 km ESE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  13. 1.8 6 km WSW of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico
  14. 1.6 2 km E of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.4 6 km SW of Stella, 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 410 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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