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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.4md

81 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico

· 56 km deep · released about 110 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.4 (md)
Depth
56 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Fajardo Municipio, 83 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2590 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 5.8 130,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 95,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 8.5× 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 19.1291, -65.6153. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Fajardo Municipio, PR 83 km (51 mi) N of here earthquakes near Fajardo Municipio
Loíza Municipio, PR 83 km (52 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Loíza Municipio
Luquillo Municipio, PR 85 km (53 mi) N of here earthquakes near Luquillo Municipio
Río Grande Municipio, PR 86 km (53 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Río Grande Municipio
Carolina Municipio, PR 90 km (56 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Carolina Municipio
San Juan Municipio, PR 92 km (57 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near San Juan Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.6 95 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.5 64 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.7 118 km NNE of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.7 Puerto Rico region
  5. 3.0 120 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.2 62 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.5 66 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.8 62 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.9 86 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  10. 2.7 87 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  11. 3.0 88 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  12. 2.6 74 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico
  13. 3.1 84 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  14. 3.1 81 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.6 78 km N of Culebra, 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 4.5 on 2018-03-06 — it released about 1,500 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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