QuakeIndex

Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.6md

25 km NW of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico

· 10 km deep · released about 220 lb of TNT

Felt it? Tell USGS Check my area
10 km30 km60 km120 km N Aguadilla Municipio 23 kmAguada Municipio 27 kmRincón Municipio 27 kmMoca Municipio 35 kmIsabela Municipio 36 kmAñasco Municipio 38 kmQuebradillas Municipio 45 kmSan Sebastián Municipio 47 kmCamuy Municipio 52 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 2.6 (md)
Depth
10 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Aguadilla Municipio, 23 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2715 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 220 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 68,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 48,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4.3× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 220 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 18.5656, -67.3433. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 23 km (14 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 27 km (17 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Rincón Municipio, PR 27 km (17 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Moca Municipio, PR 35 km (22 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Moca Municipio
Isabela Municipio, PR 36 km (22 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Isabela Municipio
Añasco Municipio, PR 38 km (24 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 19 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.5 55 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.4 23 km NW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.2 9 km WSW of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.1 19 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.5 39 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.6 66 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.4 18 km WNW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  9. 3.3 Mona Passage
  10. 2.4 21 km SW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.2 1 km E of Luyando, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.7 43 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.5 Mona Passage
  14. 2.2 21 km WNW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.0 4 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 4.4 on 2017-10-01 — it released about 540 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.