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M 2.0md

5 km E of Orocovis, Puerto Rico

· 21 km deep · released about 28 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (md)
Depth
21 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Barranquitas Municipio, 4 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1744 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 28 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 5.8 540,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 380,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 34× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 28 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 18.2223, -66.3423. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Barranquitas Municipio, PR 4 km (3 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Barranquitas Municipio
Corozal Municipio, PR 9 km (6 mi) S of here earthquakes near Corozal Municipio
Orocovis Municipio, PR 10 km (6 mi) E of here earthquakes near Orocovis Municipio
Naranjito Municipio, PR 12 km (7 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Naranjito Municipio
Comerío Municipio, PR 13 km (8 mi) W of here earthquakes near Comerío Municipio
Aibonito Municipio, PR 13 km (8 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Aibonito Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 1 km WSW of Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.8 1 km WSW of Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.0 5 km SW of Adjuntas, 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 5.0 on 2020-01-07 — it released about 34,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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