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M 2.3md

8 km SE of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico

· 4.0 km deep · released about 74 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (md)
Depth
4.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Ponce Municipio, 10 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2548 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 74 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 200,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 140,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 13× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 74 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 17.9345, -66.6726. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Ponce Municipio, PR 10 km (6 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Ponce Municipio
Peñuelas Municipio, PR 12 km (7 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Peñuelas Municipio
Guayanilla Municipio, PR 15 km (10 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Guayanilla Municipio
Juana Díaz Municipio, PR 21 km (13 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Juana Díaz Municipio
Yauco Municipio, PR 26 km (16 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Yauco Municipio
Guánica Municipio, PR 27 km (16 mi) E of here earthquakes near Guánica Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 10 km WNW of Orocovis, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.2 12 km S of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  3. 1.9 4 km E of Guayabal, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.3 12 km SW of Potala Pastillo, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.0 Puerto Rico region
  6. 1.9 3 km SE of Utuado, Puerto Rico
  7. 1.9 13 km SSE of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  8. 1.7 1 km WSW of Río Cañas Abajo, Puerto Rico
  9. 1.6 10 km NW of Coto Laurel, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.2 13 km SSE of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  11. 1.6 11 km ESE of Maricao, Puerto Rico
  12. 1.9 15 km SSW of Potala Pastillo, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.0 8 km S of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.0 1 km SW of Las Ochenta, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.5 3 km ESE of Jauca, 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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