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M 2.4md

2 km NNE of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico

· 87 km deep · released about 120 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.4 (md)
Depth
87 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Manatí Municipio, 4 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2833 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 120 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 120,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 86,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 7.7× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.4 about 120 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 18.4805, -66.4840. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Manatí Municipio, PR 4 km (3 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Manatí Municipio
Barceloneta Municipio, PR 8 km (5 mi) E of here earthquakes near Barceloneta Municipio
Vega Baja Municipio, PR 10 km (6 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Vega Baja Municipio
Florida Municipio, PR 15 km (9 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Florida Municipio
Vega Alta Municipio, PR 16 km (10 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Vega Alta Municipio
Morovis Municipio, PR 19 km (12 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Morovis Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.7 5 km S of Jayuya, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.5 6 km ESE of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.1 0 km SW of Toa Alta, Puerto Rico
  4. 1.8 3 km W of Rafael Capo, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.0 3 km SW of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.6 24 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.9 13 km NNW of Brenas, Puerto Rico
  8. 1.8 1 km SE of Piedra Gorda, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.4 13 km N of Carrizales, Puerto Rico
  10. 1.5 18 km NNE of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico
  11. 1.9 6 km WNW of Palomas, Puerto Rico
  12. 1.5 5 km SSW of Guaynabo, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.5 12 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.6 32 km N of Garrochales, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.4 34 km N of Arecibo, 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 970 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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