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M 2.4md

16 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico

· 20 km deep · released about 100 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.4 (md)
Depth
20 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Isabela Municipio, 18 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2832 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 100 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 5.8 150,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 110,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 9.4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.4 about 100 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 18.6450, -67.0420. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Isabela Municipio, PR 18 km (11 mi) N of here earthquakes near Isabela Municipio
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 21 km (13 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio
Quebradillas Municipio, PR 23 km (14 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Quebradillas Municipio
Camuy Municipio, PR 29 km (18 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Camuy Municipio
Moca Municipio, PR 30 km (19 mi) N of here earthquakes near Moca Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 34 km (21 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Aguada 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. 2.9 8 km NNE of Animas, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.4 15 km NNE of Isabela, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.1 7 km NNE of Hatillo, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.7 Mona Passage
  5. 2.0 18 km N of Garrochales, Puerto Rico
  6. 3.0 46 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  7. 3.1 48 km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.3 19 km NNE of Isabela, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.5 13 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico
  10. 1.8 3 km W of Rafael Capo, Puerto Rico
  11. 3.1 58 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.2 4 km ENE of Isabela, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.5 52 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.2 34 km NW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.9 45 km NW of San Antonio, 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 840 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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