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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.5md

1 km S of Cataño, Puerto Rico

· 101 km deep · released about 150 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 2.5 (md)
Depth
101 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Cataño Municipio, 4 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2585 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 150 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 99,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 70,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 6.2× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.5 about 150 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 18.4258, -66.1198. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Cataño Municipio, PR 4 km (2 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Cataño Municipio
San Juan Municipio, PR 5 km (3 mi) W of here earthquakes near San Juan Municipio
Toa Baja Municipio, PR 8 km (5 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Toa Baja Municipio
Guaynabo Municipio, PR 9 km (6 mi) N of here earthquakes near Guaynabo Municipio
Bayamón Municipio, PR 10 km (6 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Bayamón Municipio
Toa Alta Municipio, PR 15 km (9 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Toa Alta Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.4 27 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico
  2. 1.8 Puerto Rico region
  3. 2.0 2 km SE of Palmarejo, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.2 8 km N of Levittown, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.8 16 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  6. 1.8 4 km NNE of Orocovis, Puerto Rico
  7. 3.0 4 km SSW of Bayamón, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.9 2 km NE of Guaynabo, Puerto Rico
  9. 1.6 6 km SSW of Jagual, Puerto Rico
  10. 1.7 10 km WNW of Orocovis, Puerto Rico
  11. 1.8 25 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.2 12 km NNW of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico
  13. 1.8 1 km ESE of Mariano Colón, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.3 1 km E of Corozal, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.2 4 km ESE 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 4.4 on 2018-12-09 — 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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