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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.1md

3 km SSW of Capitanejo, Puerto Rico

· 14 km deep · released about 40 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.1 (md)
Depth
14 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Juana Díaz Municipio, 6 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1439 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 40 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 5.8 380,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 270,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 24× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 40 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 17.9882, -66.5473. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Juana Díaz Municipio, PR 6 km (4 mi) W of here earthquakes near Juana Díaz Municipio
Ponce Municipio, PR 6 km (4 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Ponce Municipio
Santa Isabel Municipio, PR 17 km (11 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Santa Isabel Municipio
Villalba Municipio, PR 18 km (11 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Villalba Municipio
Peñuelas Municipio, PR 20 km (12 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Peñuelas Municipio
Coamo Municipio, PR 24 km (15 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Coamo Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 3 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  2. 1.8 5 km WSW of Fuig, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.1 6 km WSW of Fuig, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.4 4 km SE of Indios, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.4 4 km S of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.6 3 km SSW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.0 2 km NW of Coto Laurel, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.2 6 km WSW of Fuig, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.9 6 km WSW of Fuig, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.2 Puerto Rico region
  11. 2.1 3 km ESE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.2 2 km N of Guayanilla, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.5 2 km N of Guayanilla, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.2 1 km N of Guayanilla, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.9 Puerto Rico region

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 3,000,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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