QuakeIndex

Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.5md

73 km W of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico

· 45 km deep · released about 160 lb of TNT

Felt it? Tell USGS Check my area
10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mayagüez Municipio 10 kmCabo Rojo Municipio 74 kmRincón Municipio 76 kmHormigueros Municipio 82 kmAguada Municipio 84 kmAñasco Municipio 85 kmLajas Municipio 88 kmSan Germán Municipio 90 kmAguadilla Municipio 94 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 2.5 (md)
Depth
45 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mayagüez Municipio, 10 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2712 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 160 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 92,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 65,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 5.8× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.5 about 160 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 17.9968, -67.8766. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mayagüez Municipio, PR 10 km (6 mi) S of here earthquakes near Mayagüez Municipio
Cabo Rojo Municipio, PR 74 km (46 mi) W of here earthquakes near Cabo Rojo Municipio
Rincón Municipio, PR 76 km (47 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Hormigueros Municipio, PR 82 km (51 mi) W of here earthquakes near Hormigueros Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 84 km (52 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Añasco Municipio, PR 85 km (53 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.6 51 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.6 26 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.8 56 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  4. 3.0 59 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  5. 2.8 50 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  6. 2.7 67 km W of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  7. 3.3 55 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  8. 3.1 Puerto Rico region
  9. 3.3 53 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  10. 2.6 47 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  11. 3.1 57 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  12. 3.0 38 km ESE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  13. 3.1 48 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  14. 2.7 54 km W of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.6 42 km WSW of Stella, 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 2017-07-18 — it released about 520 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

QuakeIndex does not issue warnings. For earthquake early warning see ShakeAlert.