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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.3md

13 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico

· 58 km deep · released about 88 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (md)
Depth
58 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Dorado Municipio, 15 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2829 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 88 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 5.8 170,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 120,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 11× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 88 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 18.5931, -66.3296. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Dorado Municipio, PR 15 km (9 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Dorado Municipio
Vega Baja Municipio, PR 17 km (11 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Vega Baja Municipio
Vega Alta Municipio, PR 17 km (11 mi) N of here earthquakes near Vega Alta Municipio
Toa Baja Municipio, PR 21 km (13 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Toa Baja Municipio
Manatí Municipio, PR 24 km (15 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Manatí Municipio
Cataño Municipio, PR 25 km (16 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Cataño Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

41 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. 2.3 9 km N of Carrizales, Puerto Rico
  8. 1.8 8 km SSW of Ciales, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.5 31 km NNE of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  10. 1.7 50 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.6 10 km N of Carrizales, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.9 8 km NNE of Animas, Puerto Rico
  13. 1.9 3 km ENE of Bairoa, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.4 24 km N of Dorado, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.2 1 km NW of Sumidero, 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 5,400 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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