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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.8md

10 km S of Central Aguirre, Puerto Rico

· 8.0 km deep · released about 550 lb of TNT

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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 2.8 (md)
Depth
8.0 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Salinas Municipio, 13 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1701 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 550 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 28,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 19,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1.7× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.8 about 550 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 17.8578, -66.2296. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Salinas Municipio, PR 13 km (8 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Salinas Municipio
Guayama Municipio, PR 16 km (10 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Guayama Municipio
Santa Isabel Municipio, PR 20 km (12 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Santa Isabel Municipio
Arroyo Municipio, PR 24 km (15 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Arroyo Municipio
Cayey Municipio, PR 29 km (18 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Cayey Municipio
Patillas Municipio, PR 30 km (19 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Patillas Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 4 km WNW of Coamo, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.7 6 km SSE of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.6 6 km SSE of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.2 6 km SSE of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.3 6 km SSE of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.1 12 km SSE of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.0 14 km SSE of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.2 2 km SSW of Río Cañas Abajo, Puerto Rico
  9. 1.6 5 km S of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.0 1 km NW of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.5 4 km SSE of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.3 3 km E of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  13. 1.8 4 km W of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.3 6 km NW of Palomas, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.2 2 km E 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 5.0 on 2020-01-07 — it released about 1,700 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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