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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.2md

9 km SSE of Daguao, Puerto Rico

· 69 km deep · released about 58 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.2 (md)
Depth
69 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Naguabo Municipio, 12 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2561 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 58 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 260,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 180,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 16× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.2 about 58 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 18.1433, -65.6528. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Naguabo Municipio, PR 12 km (7 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Naguabo Municipio
Ceiba Municipio, PR 13 km (8 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Ceiba Municipio
Humacao Municipio, PR 14 km (9 mi) E of here earthquakes near Humacao Municipio
Vieques Municipio, PR 23 km (15 mi) W of here earthquakes near Vieques Municipio
Las Piedras Municipio, PR 24 km (15 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Las Piedras Municipio
Yabucoa Municipio, PR 24 km (15 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Yabucoa Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 2 km W of Humacao, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.7 22 km SE of Emajagua, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.7 18 km SSW of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.1 13 km WSW of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  5. 3.0 29 km S of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.6 23 km SE of Emajagua, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.5 1 km SW of Bairoa, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.8 7 km SW of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.7 7 km W of Isabel Segunda, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.3 5 km SSE of El Negro, Puerto Rico
  11. 1.8 9 km S of Emajagua, Puerto Rico
  12. 1.7 4 km SSE of Arroyo, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.2 2 km NNE of Emajagua, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.8 5 km W of Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.6 29 km SSE of Esperanza, 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 4,100 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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