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M 2.1md

1 km ENE of Palomas, Puerto Rico

· 18 km deep · released about 38 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.1 (md)
Depth
18 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Guayanilla Municipio, 7 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1488 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 18.0192, -66.8612. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Guayanilla Municipio, PR 7 km (4 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Guayanilla Municipio
Yauco Municipio, PR 7 km (5 mi) S of here earthquakes near Yauco Municipio
Guánica Municipio, PR 10 km (6 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Guánica Municipio
Sabana Grande Municipio, PR 12 km (7 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Sabana Grande Municipio
Peñuelas Municipio, PR 14 km (9 mi) W of here earthquakes near Peñuelas Municipio
Maricao Municipio, PR 19 km (12 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Maricao Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 3 km SSW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.3 Puerto Rico region
  3. 2.5 6 km S of Indios, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.1 10 km SSW of Jayuya, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.3 13 km SSE of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.1 Puerto Rico region
  7. 2.3 2 km SSW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.5 4 km SSW of Palmarejo, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.3 1 km WNW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.3 7 km SSW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  11. 1.9 1 km SW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.1 4 km ESE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.1 Puerto Rico region
  14. 1.8 2 km NW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  15. 1.7 8 km S of Tallaboa, 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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