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M 2.3md

1 km W of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico

· 8.0 km deep · released about 77 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (md)
Depth
8.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Aguada Municipio, 6 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2791 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 77 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 5.8 200,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 140,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 12× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 77 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 18.4300, -67.1725. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Aguada Municipio, PR 6 km (4 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 6 km (4 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio
Moca Municipio, PR 11 km (7 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Moca Municipio
Rincón Municipio, PR 13 km (8 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Añasco Municipio, PR 16 km (10 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio
Isabela Municipio, PR 18 km (11 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Isabela Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.9 4 km S of La Playa, Puerto Rico
  2. 1.9 22 km W of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.0 3 km WNW of Maricao, Puerto Rico
  4. 1.8 13 km E of Maricao, Puerto Rico
  5. 1.8 25 km W of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.4 22 km NNW of Isabela, Puerto Rico
  7. 1.7 10 km WNW of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico
  8. 1.7 27 km NW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.8 24 km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.0 36 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.7 49 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.7 31 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.2 2 km ESE of Las Marías, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.2 3 km ESE of Las Marías, Puerto Rico
  15. 1.7 2 km ESE of Las Marías, 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 1,100 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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