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M 2.2md

29 km W of Stella, Puerto Rico

· 14 km deep · released about 52 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.2 (md)
Depth
14 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Rincón Municipio, 29 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1786 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 52 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 290,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 200,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 18× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.2 about 52 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 18.2871, -67.5216. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Rincón Municipio, PR 29 km (18 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 37 km (23 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Añasco Municipio, PR 41 km (26 mi) W of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio
Mayagüez Municipio, PR 45 km (28 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Mayagüez Municipio
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 45 km (28 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio
Hormigueros Municipio, PR 46 km (29 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Hormigueros Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 1 km NNE of Boquerón, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.0 1 km NNW of Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.3 17 km SW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.0 5 km ESE of Espino, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.3 1 km NNW of Boquerón, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.5 22 km W of Pole Ojea, 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 4.4 on 2017-10-01 — it released about 2,300 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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