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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.1md

4 km SSE of Cayey, Puerto Rico

· 17 km deep · released about 49 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.1 (md)
Depth
17 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Cayey Municipio, 3 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1527 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 49 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 5.8 310,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 220,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 19× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 49 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 18.0788, -66.1503. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Cayey Municipio, PR 3 km (2 mi) S of here earthquakes near Cayey Municipio
Cidra Municipio, PR 11 km (7 mi) S of here earthquakes near Cidra Municipio
Guayama Municipio, PR 12 km (7 mi) N of here earthquakes near Guayama Municipio
Aibonito Municipio, PR 13 km (8 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Aibonito Municipio
Arroyo Municipio, PR 17 km (10 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Arroyo Municipio
Salinas Municipio, PR 17 km (10 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Salinas Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.4 4 km SSW of Potala Pastillo, Puerto Rico
  2. 3.4 5 km SSW of Potala Pastillo, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.6 5 km E of Candelero Arriba, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.8 5 km NNW of Dorado, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.2 3 km N of Orocovis, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.3 2 km SE of Lamboglia, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.3 3 km ESE of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  8. 3.0 6 km SSW of Potala Pastillo, Puerto Rico
  9. 1.9 2 km SSE of Lamboglia, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.4 Puerto Rico region
  11. 3.6 1 km NNW of San José, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.2 5 km SSW of Potala Pastillo, Puerto Rico
  13. 3.0 3 km ESE of Cayey, Puerto Rico
  14. 3.0 3 km E of Cayey, Puerto Rico
  15. 1.8 2 km SW 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 4.6 on 2016-12-05 — it released about 4,900 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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