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M 2.3md

3 km NNE of Espino, Puerto Rico

· 24 km deep · released about 79 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (md)
Depth
24 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Añasco Municipio, 4 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2908 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 79 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 5.8 190,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 130,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 12× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 79 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 18.3056, -67.1041. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Añasco Municipio, PR 4 km (2 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio
Moca Municipio, PR 8 km (5 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Moca Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 12 km (7 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
San Sebastián Municipio, PR 15 km (9 mi) W of here earthquakes near San Sebastián Municipio
Rincón Municipio, PR 16 km (10 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Las Marías Municipio, PR 16 km (10 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Las Marías Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 5 km NNW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  2. 1.7 5 km W of Hormigueros, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.2 10 km NNW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.0 8 km NW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.2 8 km NW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  6. 1.9 6 km NW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.1 6 km NNW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  8. 1.7 5 km NW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  9. 1.9 11 km W of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
  10. 1.7 1 km NNE of Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.0 8 km WNW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  12. 1.9 4 km N of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.3 7 km WNW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  14. 1.8 4 km W of Palmarejo, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.4 8 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 4.3 on 2017-10-14 — 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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