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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.5md

3 km S of Barranquitas, Puerto Rico

· 19 km deep · released about 140 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.5 (md)
Depth
19 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Aibonito Municipio, 5 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1859 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 140 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 110,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 75,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 6.7× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.5 about 140 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 18.1528, -66.3003. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Aibonito Municipio, PR 5 km (3 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Aibonito Municipio
Barranquitas Municipio, PR 5 km (3 mi) S of here earthquakes near Barranquitas Municipio
Coamo Municipio, PR 8 km (5 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Coamo Municipio
Comerío Municipio, PR 12 km (7 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Comerío Municipio
Cidra Municipio, PR 15 km (9 mi) W of here earthquakes near Cidra Municipio
Naranjito Municipio, PR 16 km (10 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Naranjito Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 2 km ENE of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico
  2. 3.2 9 km NW of Coto Laurel, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.3 2 km SSW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico
  4. 3.3 12 km SSE of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.8 1 km ENE of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico
  6. 3.1 0 km NNE of Central Aguirre, Puerto Rico
  7. 3.2 3 km S of Guaynabo, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.6 2 km ESE of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.8 2 km ESE of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico
  10. 1.9 5 km ESE of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.5 4 km SSW of Ponce, 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 6,700 times the energy of this one.

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

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