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M 2.3md

68 km S of Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico

· 26 km deep · released about 88 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (md)
Depth
26 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Santa Isabel Municipio, 67 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2492 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 17.3568, -66.4966. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Santa Isabel Municipio, PR 67 km (42 mi) S of here earthquakes near Santa Isabel Municipio
Juana Díaz Municipio, PR 71 km (44 mi) S of here earthquakes near Juana Díaz Municipio
Ponce Municipio, PR 73 km (45 mi) S of here earthquakes near Ponce Municipio
Salinas Municipio, PR 73 km (45 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Salinas Municipio
Peñuelas Municipio, PR 78 km (49 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Peñuelas Municipio
Guayama Municipio, PR 78 km (49 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Guayama Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.4 27 km SSE of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico
  2. 3.3 103 km S of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.4 55 km S of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.3 28 km S of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.3 26 km SSE of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.0 24 km S of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.3 23 km SSW of Potala Pastillo, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.3 23 km SSW of Santa Isabel, 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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