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M 2.1md

1 km N of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico

· 24 km deep · released about 49 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.1 (md)
Depth
24 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Añasco Municipio, 8 km N
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 49 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 310,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 220,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 19× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 49 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 18.2110, -67.1380. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Añasco Municipio, PR 8 km (5 mi) S of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio
Hormigueros Municipio, PR 9 km (5 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Hormigueros Municipio
San Germán Municipio, PR 16 km (10 mi) NW of here earthquakes near San Germán Municipio
Las Marías Municipio, PR 17 km (11 mi) W of here earthquakes near Las Marías Municipio
Rincón Municipio, PR 19 km (12 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 19 km (12 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 13 km E of Maricao, Puerto Rico
  2. 1.8 25 km W of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  3. 1.7 10 km WNW of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico
  4. 1.7 27 km NW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.1 1 km SSE of Palomas, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.7 31 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.3 1 km NNW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  8. 1.9 5 km E of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.2 2 km ESE of Las Marías, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.2 3 km ESE of Las Marías, Puerto Rico
  11. 1.7 2 km ESE of Las Marías, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.0 2 km NNE of Las Marías, Puerto Rico
  13. 1.9 3 km NNE of Las Marías, Puerto Rico
  14. 3.8 1 km ESE of Las Marías, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.8 4 km WNW of Mayagüez, 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 1,700 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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