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M 2.3md

88 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico

· 54 km deep · released about 72 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Culebra Municipio 87 kmFajardo Municipio 87 kmLuquillo Municipio 94 kmRío Grande Municipio 98 kmCeiba Municipio 102 kmLoíza Municipio 102 kmCarolina Municipio 108 kmCanóvanas Municipio 108 kmVieques Municipio 110 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (md)
Depth
54 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Culebra Municipio, 87 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2639 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 72 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 210,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 150,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 13× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 72 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 19.1058, -65.2688. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Culebra Municipio, PR 87 km (54 mi) N of here earthquakes near Culebra Municipio
Fajardo Municipio, PR 87 km (54 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Fajardo Municipio
Luquillo Municipio, PR 94 km (59 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Luquillo Municipio
Río Grande Municipio, PR 98 km (61 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Río Grande Municipio
Ceiba Municipio, PR 102 km (63 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Ceiba Municipio
Loíza Municipio, PR 102 km (63 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Loíza Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 59 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  2. 2.8 78 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.9 86 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.8 80 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.4 81 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.6 61 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.9 117 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.2 80 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.7 58 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  10. 3.1 109 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.3 46 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.5 50 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico
  13. 3.2 94 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  14. 2.8 85 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  15. 4.0 94 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands

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 4.5 on 2018-02-09 — it released about 2,400 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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