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M 2.6md

55 km S of Jobos, Puerto Rico

· 28 km deep · released about 220 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.6 (md)
Depth
28 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Arroyo Municipio, 58 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2575 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 220 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 68,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 48,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4.3× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 220 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 17.4556, -66.0936. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Arroyo Municipio, PR 58 km (36 mi) S of here earthquakes near Arroyo Municipio
Guayama Municipio, PR 58 km (36 mi) S of here earthquakes near Guayama Municipio
Salinas Municipio, PR 60 km (37 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Salinas Municipio
Patillas Municipio, PR 62 km (38 mi) S of here earthquakes near Patillas Municipio
Santa Isabel Municipio, PR 63 km (39 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Santa Isabel Municipio
Maunabo Municipio, PR 64 km (40 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Maunabo Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.6 70 km SSE of Emajagua, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.6 65 km S of Arroyo, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.9 20 km SSE of Emajagua, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.3 8 km SE of Jobos, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.6 8 km SE of Jobos, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.0 12 km SSE of Arroyo, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.4 21 km S of Lamboglia, 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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