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M 2.1md

Puerto Rico region

· 5.5 km deep · released about 38 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.1 (md)
Depth
5.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Yauco Municipio, 0 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1567 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 38 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 390,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 280,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 25× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 38 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 18.0878, -66.8583. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Yauco Municipio, PR 0 km (0 mi) N of here earthquakes near Yauco Municipio
Sabana Grande Municipio, PR 9 km (6 mi) E of here earthquakes near Sabana Grande Municipio
Guayanilla Municipio, PR 11 km (7 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Guayanilla Municipio
Maricao Municipio, PR 13 km (8 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Maricao Municipio
Adjuntas Municipio, PR 15 km (9 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Adjuntas Municipio
Peñuelas Municipio, PR 15 km (10 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Peñuelas Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 2 km SSE of Palomas, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.2 8 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.3 5 km SE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.3 1 km SSE of Yauco, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.4 3 km SSW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  6. 1.9 6 km WSW of Fuig, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.0 6 km SW of Liborio Negron Torres, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.0 7 km ESE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.8 Puerto Rico region
  10. 2.6 1 km SSE of Indios, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.1 6 km W of Fuig, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.5 7 km SSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.8 5 km ENE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.2 2 km WSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.4 3 km SW of Santo Domingo, 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 3,100,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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