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M 2.6md

Mona Passage

· 8.0 km deep · released about 220 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Aguadilla Municipio 80 kmRincón Municipio 83 kmAguada Municipio 85 kmIsabela Municipio 90 kmMoca Municipio 92 kmAñasco Municipio 96 kmMayagüez Municipio 96 kmQuebradillas Municipio 99 kmSan Sebastián Municipio 104 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 2.6 (md)
Depth
8.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Aguadilla Municipio, 80 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2456 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 220 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 70,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 50,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4.4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 220 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 18.9366, -67.7270. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 80 km (50 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio
Rincón Municipio, PR 83 km (52 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 85 km (53 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Isabela Municipio, PR 90 km (56 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Isabela Municipio
Moca Municipio, PR 92 km (57 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Moca Municipio
Añasco Municipio, PR 96 km (59 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.9 77 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  2. 3.2 83 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.9 101 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  4. 3.0 104 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.8 75 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  6. 2.8 94 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.9 99 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  8. 3.0 76 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.9 89 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  10. 2.4 78 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  11. 2.7 67 km ENE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  12. 3.0 81 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  13. 3.0 87 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.7 37 km ENE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  15. 2.8 86 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

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 2018-12-25 — it released about 1,100 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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