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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.3md

20 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico

· 9.0 km deep · released about 88 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (md)
Depth
9.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Isabela Municipio, 22 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2498 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 88 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 5.8 170,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 120,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 11× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 88 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 18.6788, -66.9873. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Isabela Municipio, PR 22 km (14 mi) N of here earthquakes near Isabela Municipio
Quebradillas Municipio, PR 24 km (15 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Quebradillas Municipio
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 28 km (17 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio
Camuy Municipio, PR 29 km (18 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Camuy Municipio
Hatillo Municipio, PR 33 km (21 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Hatillo Municipio
Moca Municipio, PR 35 km (22 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Moca Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.8 66 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  2. 3.1 53 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.3 61 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.9 63 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.1 3 km E of Isabela, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.6 58 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.7 49 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.7 24 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  9. 3.2 57 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  10. 3.1 65 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.8 66 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico
  12. 3.0 61 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.9 50 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  14. 3.0 49 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.0 22 km NNE of Carrizales, 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 5.1 on 2019-09-24 — it released about 13,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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