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M 2.1md

19 km SSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico

· 15 km deep · released about 44 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.1 (md)
Depth
15 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Guánica Municipio, 16 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1868 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 44 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 340,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 240,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 22× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 44 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 17.8026, -66.9465. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Guánica Municipio, PR 16 km (10 mi) S of here earthquakes near Guánica Municipio
Lajas Municipio, PR 22 km (14 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Lajas Municipio
Guayanilla Municipio, PR 27 km (17 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Guayanilla Municipio
Sabana Grande Municipio, PR 31 km (19 mi) S of here earthquakes near Sabana Grande Municipio
Yauco Municipio, PR 33 km (20 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Yauco Municipio
Cabo Rojo Municipio, PR 33 km (20 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Cabo Rojo Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 4 km SSW of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  2. 1.5 3 km SW of Liborio Negron Torres, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.1 6 km S of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.2 5 km W of Fuig, Puerto Rico
  5. 1.7 6 km ENE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.2 2 km WNW of Fuig, Puerto Rico
  7. 1.9 4 km WSW of Fuig, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.3 6 km SE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.1 Puerto Rico region
  10. 1.5 3 km WSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.1 2 km WSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  12. 1.6 2 km WSW of Fuig, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.4 4 km SSW of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  14. 1.6 2 km SW of Fuig, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.2 5 km NW of Santo Domingo, 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 6.4 on 2020-01-07 — it released about 2,700,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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