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M 2.4md

7 km E of Maricao, Puerto Rico

· 21 km deep · released about 110 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.4 (md)
Depth
21 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Maricao Municipio, 3 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2562 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 5.8 140,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 99,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 8.8× 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 18.1823, -66.9076. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Maricao Municipio, PR 3 km (2 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Maricao Municipio
Las Marías Municipio, PR 9 km (6 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Las Marías Municipio
Lares Municipio, PR 11 km (7 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Lares Municipio
Sabana Grande Municipio, PR 12 km (7 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Sabana Grande Municipio
Yauco Municipio, PR 12 km (7 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Yauco Municipio
Adjuntas Municipio, PR 16 km (10 mi) W of here earthquakes near Adjuntas Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 3 km WSW of Fuig, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.0 20 km SSE of Indios, Puerto Rico
  3. 1.9 2 km SW of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico
  4. 1.7 13 km WSW of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.0 14 km SW of Potala Pastillo, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.1 14 km SSE of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.0 12 km SSE of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.0 2 km NNE of Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico
  9. 1.8 4 km WNW of Hormigueros, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.0 12 km S of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.6 4 km NNE of Isabela, Puerto Rico
  12. 1.6 6 km WSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  13. 1.6 12 km SSE of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  14. 1.5 3 km WNW of Palmarejo, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.3 8 km NW of Caban, 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 4.3 on 2019-09-05 — 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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