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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.0md

12 km SW of Potala Pastillo, Puerto Rico

· 11 km deep · released about 27 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (md)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Ponce Municipio, 12 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2496 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 27 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 560,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 390,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 35× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 27 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 17.9020, -66.5755. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Ponce Municipio, PR 12 km (7 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Ponce Municipio
Juana Díaz Municipio, PR 14 km (9 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Juana Díaz Municipio
Santa Isabel Municipio, PR 21 km (13 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Santa Isabel Municipio
Peñuelas Municipio, PR 21 km (13 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Peñuelas Municipio
Guayanilla Municipio, PR 26 km (16 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Guayanilla Municipio
Villalba Municipio, PR 28 km (17 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Villalba Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 21 km SSW of Potala Pastillo, Puerto Rico
  2. 1.6 7 km SSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.1 12 km SSE of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.4 12 km SW of Potala Pastillo, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.3 1 km NW of Jauca, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.2 13 km SW of Potala Pastillo, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.3 13 km SSW of Potala Pastillo, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.0 12 km SSE of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.1 11 km SSE of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.0 Puerto Rico region
  11. 1.9 1 km SSE of Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.1 13 km SW of Potala Pastillo, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.0 11 km SSE of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.0 12 km SSE of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  15. 1.9 6 km NE of Sabana Grande, 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 2019-03-12 — it released about 8,800 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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