QuakeIndex

Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.0md

2 km N of Fuig, Puerto Rico

· 4.1 km deep · released about 32 lb of TNT

Felt it? Tell USGS Check my area
10 km30 km60 km120 km N Guánica Municipio 7 kmSabana Grande Municipio 9 kmYauco Municipio 10 kmGuayanilla Municipio 12 kmLajas Municipio 14 kmSan Germán Municipio 17 kmMaricao Municipio 18 kmPeñuelas Municipio 20 kmLas Marías Municipio 25 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
4.1 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Guánica Municipio, 7 km S
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 32 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 5.8 470,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 330,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 30× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 32 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 18.0103, -66.9145. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Guánica Municipio, PR 7 km (4 mi) N of here earthquakes near Guánica Municipio
Sabana Grande Municipio, PR 9 km (6 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Sabana Grande Municipio
Yauco Municipio, PR 10 km (6 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Yauco Municipio
Guayanilla Municipio, PR 12 km (8 mi) W of here earthquakes near Guayanilla Municipio
Lajas Municipio, PR 14 km (9 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Lajas Municipio
San Germán Municipio, PR 17 km (11 mi) SE of here earthquakes near San Germán Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.8 4 km WSW of Fuig, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.5 6 km WSW of Liborio Negron Torres, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.7 5 km WSW of Fuig, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.4 3 km SW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.5 5 km WSW of Fuig, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.7 6 km WSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  7. 3.3 6 km WSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  8. 1.9 7 km ESE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  9. 1.6 5 km WSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  10. 1.7 6 km SW of Liborio Negron Torres, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.0 5 km NNE of Peñuelas, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.0 5 km ENE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.0 4 km N of Peñuelas, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.3 4 km ESE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.1 0 km ENE of Lluveras, 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 6.4 on 2020-01-07 — it released about 3,700,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

QuakeIndex does not issue warnings. For earthquake early warning see ShakeAlert.