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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.0md

32 km WNW of Rincón, Puerto Rico

· 22 km deep · released about 27 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (md)
Depth
22 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Rincón Municipio, 33 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2740 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 27 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 560,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 390,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 35× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 27 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 18.4008, -67.5531. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Rincón Municipio, PR 33 km (20 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 39 km (24 mi) W of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 44 km (27 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio
Añasco Municipio, PR 46 km (29 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio
Mayagüez Municipio, PR 50 km (31 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Mayagüez Municipio
Moca Municipio, PR 50 km (31 mi) W of here earthquakes near Moca Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.7 28 km NW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.7 21 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  3. 1.7 9 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.5 22 km NW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.1 16 km SW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.7 55 km ESE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  7. 2.1 18 km SW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.1 27 km SW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.2 18 km W of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.0 16 km WNW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.6 28 km WNW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.6 51 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.6 26 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.3 12 km SW of La Playa, Puerto Rico
  15. 1.8 15 km WSW of Puerto Real, 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 4.4 on 2017-10-01 — it released about 4,400 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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