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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.5md

18 km NNW of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico

· 67 km deep · released about 190 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 2.5 (md)
Depth
67 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Barceloneta Municipio, 17 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2869 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 190 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 78,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 55,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4.9× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.5 about 190 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 18.6180, -66.5410. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Barceloneta Municipio, PR 17 km (10 mi) N of here earthquakes near Barceloneta Municipio
Manatí Municipio, PR 20 km (12 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Manatí Municipio
Vega Baja Municipio, PR 24 km (15 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Vega Baja Municipio
Arecibo Municipio, PR 25 km (15 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Arecibo Municipio
Florida Municipio, PR 28 km (17 mi) N of here earthquakes near Florida Municipio
Vega Alta Municipio, PR 30 km (18 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Vega Alta Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 10 km NNW of Arecibo, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.1 17 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico
  3. 1.7 31 km N of Carrizales, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.5 44 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.4 30 km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.6 10 km N of Carrizales, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.6 14 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico
  8. 1.8 1 km NW of H. Rivera Colon, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.8 26 km NNW of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.9 2 km ESE of H. Rivera Colon, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.0 37 km NNE of Carrizales, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.4 40 km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.6 48 km N of Carrizales, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.6 42 km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.6 43 km N of Carrizales, 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 4.8 on 2017-08-18 — it released about 2,500 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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