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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.4md

3 km SSE of Pájaros, Puerto Rico

· 44 km deep · released about 130 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.4 (md)
Depth
44 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Bayamón Municipio, 4 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1665 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 130 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.4 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 80,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 7.2× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.4 about 130 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 18.3433, -66.2023. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Bayamón Municipio, PR 4 km (2 mi) W of here earthquakes near Bayamón Municipio
Toa Alta Municipio, PR 5 km (3 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Toa Alta Municipio
Naranjito Municipio, PR 8 km (5 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Naranjito Municipio
Guaynabo Municipio, PR 9 km (6 mi) W of here earthquakes near Guaynabo Municipio
Aguas Buenas Municipio, PR 12 km (8 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Aguas Buenas Municipio
Cataño Municipio, PR 13 km (8 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Cataño Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.8 25 km NNE of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  2. 1.9 4 km NNE of Brenas, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.6 24 km N of Dorado, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.2 3 km N of Yaurel, Puerto Rico
  5. 3.6 1 km SE of Bayamón, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.8 23 km NNE of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.3 2 km E of Central Aguirre, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.8 8 km NW of Loíza, Puerto Rico
  9. 3.0 2 km N of Yaurel, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.8 0 km SW of Pastos, Puerto Rico
  11. 3.1 Puerto Rico region
  12. 3.4 13 km NNE of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.7 2 km N of Orocovis, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.1 5 km SSE of Palmas, Puerto Rico
  15. 3.1 3 km N of Olimpo, 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 1,800 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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