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M 2.1md

115 km NNE of San Juan, Puerto Rico

Yes. A magnitude 2.1 earthquake was recorded 115 km NNE of San Juan, Puerto Rico, at 9:48 pm AST on 10 April 2019 (01:48 UTC), 32 km deep.

· 32 km deep · released about 41 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Loíza Municipio 116 kmToa Baja Municipio 119 kmCataño Municipio 119 kmDorado Municipio 119 kmSan Juan Municipio 120 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 2.1 (md)
Depth
32 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Loíza Municipio, 116 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2701 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 41 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 5.8 370,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 260,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 23× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 41 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 4.4 on 2016-10-23 — about 2,900 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 2 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km:

  1. 5.1 92 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico · 31 km SE of this epicentre
  2. 5.0 113 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico · 46 km W 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 19.4870, -65.8893. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection from the epicentre
Loíza Municipio, PR 116 km (72 mi) S earthquakes near Loíza Municipio
Toa Baja Municipio, PR 119 km (74 mi) SSW earthquakes near Toa Baja Municipio
Cataño Municipio, PR 119 km (74 mi) SSW earthquakes near Cataño Municipio
Dorado Municipio, PR 119 km (74 mi) SSW earthquakes near Dorado Municipio
San Juan Municipio, PR 120 km (74 mi) S earthquakes near San Juan Municipio
Vega Alta Municipio, PR 126 km (78 mi) SSW earthquakes near Vega Alta 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. 3.0 122 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico
  2. 3.5 118 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.4 117 km NNE of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.4 117 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.9 97 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico
  6. 3.0 Puerto Rico region
  7. 2.6 141 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.8 95 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.7 103 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.7 103 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.4 137 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.8 121 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico
  13. 4.0 121 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  14. 3.3 111 km NNE of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  15. 3.2 112 km NNE 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.

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