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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.4md

8 km NW of Aguada, Puerto Rico

· 22 km deep · released about 110 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 2.4 (md)
Depth
22 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Aguada Municipio, 9 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2658 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 110 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 140,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 99,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 8.8× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.4 about 110 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 18.4318, -67.2443. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Aguada Municipio, PR 9 km (5 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Rincón Municipio, PR 10 km (6 mi) N of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 12 km (7 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio
Moca Municipio, PR 18 km (11 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Moca Municipio
Añasco Municipio, PR 20 km (12 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio
Isabela Municipio, PR 25 km (16 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Isabela Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 3 km ENE of Espino, Puerto Rico
  2. 1.5 22 km W of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.5 25 km NW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.5 5 km NNE of Isabela, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.1 2 km E of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
  6. 1.7 5 km NNE of Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico
  7. 1.8 4 km SSW of Añasco, Puerto Rico
  8. 1.6 5 km NNE of Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.4 5 km NNE of Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico
  10. 1.6 7 km ESE of Las Marías, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.0 8 km W of Maricao, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.5 35 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  13. 1.9 25 km NNE of Isabela, Puerto Rico
  14. 1.5 6 km NE of Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico
  15. 1.9 6 km NNE of Sabana Grande, 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 2017-10-14 — it released about 790 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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