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M 2.3md

19 km NW of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico

· 31 km deep · released about 91 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (md)
Depth
31 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Aguadilla Municipio, 17 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2947 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 91 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 10× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 91 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 18.5463, -67.2896. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 17 km (11 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 22 km (14 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Rincón Municipio, PR 23 km (15 mi) N of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Moca Municipio, PR 29 km (18 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Moca Municipio
Isabela Municipio, PR 30 km (19 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Isabela Municipio
Añasco Municipio, PR 33 km (21 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 4 km S of La Playa, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.1 49 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.9 16 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  4. 1.9 19 km WNW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.5 55 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.4 10 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.6 23 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  8. 1.9 3 km NE of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.0 11 km WNW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.7 36 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.5 42 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  12. 1.9 2 km S of Añasco, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.1 3 km SW of Las Marías, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.4 2 km S of San Sebastián, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.0 11 km NW of Puerto Real, 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 1,300 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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