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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.0md

6 km S of Caguas, Puerto Rico

· 29 km deep · released about 33 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (md)
Depth
29 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Caguas Municipio, 4 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2588 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 33 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 450,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 320,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 29× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 33 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 18.1795, -66.0498. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Caguas Municipio, PR 4 km (2 mi) S of here earthquakes near Caguas Municipio
San Lorenzo Municipio, PR 9 km (5 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near San Lorenzo Municipio
Cidra Municipio, PR 12 km (7 mi) E of here earthquakes near Cidra Municipio
Aguas Buenas Municipio, PR 12 km (7 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Aguas Buenas Municipio
Gurabo Municipio, PR 13 km (8 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Gurabo Municipio
Cayey Municipio, PR 14 km (8 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Cayey Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 1 km W of Jauca, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.1 0 km N of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.3 10 km S of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.2 4 km ESE of Bayamon, Puerto Rico
  5. 1.6 14 km WSW of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  6. 1.6 2 km NNW of Jagual, Puerto Rico
  7. 1.6 1 km NNE of Parcelas Nuevas, Puerto Rico
  8. 1.6 18 km SE of El Negro, Puerto Rico
  9. 1.6 21 km SE of El Negro, Puerto Rico
  10. 1.6 19 km ESE of El Negro, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.0 22 km ESE of El Negro, Puerto Rico
  12. 1.9 11 km N of Dorado, Puerto Rico
  13. 1.6 2 km NNW of Río Cañas Abajo, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.2 9 km SSE of Daguao, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.3 2 km W of Bayamon, 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 4.6 on 2016-12-05 — it released about 7,200 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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