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M 2.2md

106 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico

Yes. A magnitude 2.2 earthquake was recorded 106 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico, at 1:01 pm AST on 20 February 2019 (17:01 UTC), 58 km deep.

· 58 km deep · released about 62 lb of TNT

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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 2.2 (md)
Depth
58 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Loíza Municipio, 107 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2741 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

At this magnitude and depth it was probably too small to be felt, even directly above it. Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 62 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 240,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 170,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 15× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.2 about 62 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km since 2016 was M 4.5 on 2018-03-06 — about 2,700 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 3 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km:

  1. 5.1 122 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico · 40 km E of this epicentre
  2. 5.1 92 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico · 14 km SSW of this epicentre
  3. 5.0 73 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico · 47 km SSE of this epicentre

Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.

Where

Epicentre 19.3816, -65.6890. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection from the epicentre
Loíza Municipio, PR 107 km (67 mi) SSW earthquakes near Loíza Municipio
Fajardo Municipio, PR 111 km (69 mi) S earthquakes near Fajardo Municipio
Río Grande Municipio, PR 112 km (70 mi) S earthquakes near Río Grande Municipio
Luquillo Municipio, PR 113 km (70 mi) S earthquakes near Luquillo Municipio
Carolina Municipio, PR 113 km (70 mi) SSW earthquakes near Carolina Municipio
San Juan Municipio, PR 114 km (71 mi) SSW earthquakes near San Juan Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 101 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.5 112 km NNE of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.5 Puerto Rico region
  4. 2.7 115 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.7 115 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.9 78 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.7 104 km NNE of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.3 70 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  9. 3.3 121 km NNE of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.7 72 km NNE of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  11. 3.5 109 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.5 98 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  13. 3.1 121 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.7 112 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.7 118 km N of Suárez, 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.

On USGS

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