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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.4md

3 km WSW of Central Aguirre, Puerto Rico

· 8.0 km deep · released about 130 lb of TNT

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

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2522 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 130 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 5.8 110,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 80,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 7.2× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.4 about 130 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 17.9425, -66.2575. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Salinas Municipio, PR 3 km (2 mi) S of here earthquakes near Salinas Municipio
Guayama Municipio, PR 13 km (8 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Guayama Municipio
Santa Isabel Municipio, PR 14 km (9 mi) E of here earthquakes near Santa Isabel Municipio
Coamo Municipio, PR 21 km (13 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Coamo Municipio
Aibonito Municipio, PR 21 km (13 mi) S of here earthquakes near Aibonito Municipio
Cayey Municipio, PR 21 km (13 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Cayey Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 5 km SSE of El Negro, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.2 13 km SSE of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.3 9 km SSW of Central Aguirre, Puerto Rico
  4. 1.8 9 km S of Emajagua, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.3 13 km SSE of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.3 5 km S of Potala Pastillo, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.3 4 km SSW of Potala Pastillo, Puerto Rico
  8. 1.8 5 km SE of Jauca, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.6 4 km SSW of Las Ochenta, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.0 6 km SSW of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  11. 1.7 4 km SSE of Arroyo, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.0 12 km SSE of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.4 4 km ENE of Jayuya, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.4 1 km WSW of Coco, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.0 12 km SW of Potala Pastillo, 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 1,800 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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