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M 2.2md

7 km N of Jayuya, Puerto Rico

· 126 km deep · released about 58 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.2 (md)
Depth
126 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Jayuya Municipio, 8 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2556 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 58 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 260,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 180,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 16× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.2 about 58 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 18.2840, -66.6010. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Jayuya Municipio, PR 8 km (5 mi) N of here earthquakes near Jayuya Municipio
Ciales Municipio, PR 9 km (6 mi) W of here earthquakes near Ciales Municipio
Florida Municipio, PR 10 km (6 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Florida Municipio
Utuado Municipio, PR 11 km (7 mi) E of here earthquakes near Utuado Municipio
Arecibo Municipio, PR 18 km (11 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Arecibo Municipio
Orocovis Municipio, PR 19 km (12 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Orocovis Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 1 km WNW of Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.0 3 km WNW of Corozal, Puerto Rico
  3. 1.7 11 km S of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  4. 1.7 9 km ENE of Maricao, Puerto Rico
  5. 1.7 2 km S of Las Ochenta, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.1 22 km N of Arecibo, Puerto Rico
  7. 1.6 Mona Passage
  8. 1.9 6 km NW of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico
  9. 1.9 7 km S of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.3 12 km SSW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico
  11. 1.7 2 km SSW of H. Rivera Colon, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.0 2 km SSW of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico
  13. 1.8 8 km S of Potala Pastillo, Puerto Rico
  14. 1.9 3 km NE of San Germán, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.5 17 km N of Arecibo, 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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