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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.0md

9 km W of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico

· 21 km deep · released about 36 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Cabo Rojo Municipio 14 kmHormigueros Municipio 18 kmSan Germán Municipio 26 kmAñasco Municipio 28 kmLajas Municipio 28 kmRincón Municipio 29 kmAguada Municipio 34 kmSabana Grande Municipio 35 kmLas Marías Municipio 36 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 2.0 (md)
Depth
21 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Cabo Rojo Municipio, 14 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1562 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 36 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 5.8 420,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 300,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 27× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 36 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 18.0811, -67.2790. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Cabo Rojo Municipio, PR 14 km (9 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Cabo Rojo Municipio
Hormigueros Municipio, PR 18 km (11 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Hormigueros Municipio
San Germán Municipio, PR 26 km (16 mi) W of here earthquakes near San Germán Municipio
Añasco Municipio, PR 28 km (17 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio
Lajas Municipio, PR 28 km (17 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Lajas Municipio
Rincón Municipio, PR 29 km (18 mi) S of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 5 km WSW of Fuig, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.0 6 km WSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.0 0 km ESE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.4 1 km SSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.1 3 km SW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  6. 1.6 3 km SW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.0 7 km SW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.1 4 km WSW of Fuig, Puerto Rico
  9. 1.9 4 km WSW of Fuig, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.2 6 km SE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.6 15 km SSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.0 Puerto Rico region
  13. 2.0 3 km W of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.6 Puerto Rico region
  15. 2.3 Puerto Rico region

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 5.9 on 2020-01-11 — it released about 600,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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