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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.6md

0 km ENE of Sabana Seca, Puerto Rico

· 115 km deep · released about 220 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
115 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Cataño Municipio, 3 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2836 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 220 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 68,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 48,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4.3× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 220 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 18.4306, -66.1771. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Cataño Municipio, PR 3 km (2 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Cataño Municipio
Toa Baja Municipio, PR 3 km (2 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Toa Baja Municipio
Bayamón Municipio, PR 9 km (6 mi) N of here earthquakes near Bayamón Municipio
Dorado Municipio, PR 10 km (6 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Dorado Municipio
Toa Alta Municipio, PR 10 km (6 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Toa Alta Municipio
San Juan Municipio, PR 11 km (7 mi) W of here earthquakes near San Juan Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.6 37 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.3 4 km NW of Palomas, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.3 Puerto Rico region
  4. 2.3 6 km NE of Villalba, Puerto Rico
  5. 1.9 24 km NNE of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.6 8 km NNW of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico
  7. 1.8 8 km SSW of Ciales, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.5 31 km NNE of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.9 8 km NNE of Animas, Puerto Rico
  10. 1.9 3 km ENE of Bairoa, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.4 24 km N of Dorado, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.2 1 km NW of Sumidero, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.0 18 km N of Garrochales, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.7 2 km SW of H. Rivera Colon, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.0 20 km NE of San Juan, 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 2018-12-09 — it released about 540 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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