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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.2md

2 km NNE of Coquí, Puerto Rico

· 14 km deep · released about 54 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.2 (md)
Depth
14 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Salinas Municipio, 5 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2975 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 54 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 5.8 280,000× 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 54 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 17.9938, -66.2223. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Salinas Municipio, PR 5 km (3 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Salinas Municipio
Guayama Municipio, PR 9 km (6 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Guayama Municipio
Cayey Municipio, PR 14 km (9 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Cayey Municipio
Aibonito Municipio, PR 16 km (10 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Aibonito Municipio
Santa Isabel Municipio, PR 18 km (11 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Santa Isabel Municipio
Coamo Municipio, PR 19 km (12 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Coamo 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. 1.8 5 km SSW of Central Aguirre, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.1 2 km SSE of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.1 21 km SSE of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.4 4 km NNE of Guaynabo, Puerto Rico
  5. 1.9 1 km N of Las Ochenta, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.2 5 km ESE of G. L. Garcia, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.0 0 km NW of Playita Cortada, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.2 1 km ESE of Potala Pastillo, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.1 3 km ESE of Cayey, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.4 2 km SSE of Cidra, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.5 17 km SSE of Jobos, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.5 3 km WSW of Sumidero, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.1 11 km SSW of Potala Pastillo, Puerto Rico
  14. 1.7 10 km SSE of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico
  15. 1.9 6 km N of Ponce, 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 4,400 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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