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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.2md

1 km SW of H. Rivera Colon, Puerto Rico

· 18 km deep · released about 54 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.2 (md)
Depth
18 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Corozal Municipio, 5 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1510 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 54 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 5.8 280,000× 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 54 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 18.3360, -66.2876. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Corozal Municipio, PR 5 km (3 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Corozal Municipio
Toa Alta Municipio, PR 6 km (3 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Toa Alta Municipio
Naranjito Municipio, PR 6 km (4 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Naranjito Municipio
Vega Alta Municipio, PR 12 km (8 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Vega Alta Municipio
Bayamón Municipio, PR 13 km (8 mi) W of here earthquakes near Bayamón Municipio
Morovis Municipio, PR 14 km (9 mi) E of here earthquakes near Morovis 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. 3.0 1 km NNE of Potala Pastillo, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.8 5 km ESE of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.0 4 km SSE of G. L. Garcia, 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 4.6 on 2019-03-12 — it released about 4,400 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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