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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.4md

5 km ESE of Punta Santiago, Puerto Rico

· 18 km deep · released about 130 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.4 (md)
Depth
18 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Naguabo Municipio, 7 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1376 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 130 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 110,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 80,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 7.2× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.4 about 130 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 18.1553, -65.6972. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Naguabo Municipio, PR 7 km (5 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Naguabo Municipio
Humacao Municipio, PR 10 km (6 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Humacao Municipio
Ceiba Municipio, PR 14 km (8 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Ceiba Municipio
Las Piedras Municipio, PR 19 km (12 mi) E of here earthquakes near Las Piedras Municipio
Yabucoa Municipio, PR 20 km (13 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Yabucoa Municipio
Juncos Municipio, PR 24 km (15 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Juncos Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.6 5 km SE of G. L. Garcia, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.2 3 km E of Bayamon, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.9 1 km W of Punta Santiago, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.8 Puerto Rico region
  5. 2.9 9 km SSE of Bajandas, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.6 19 km SW of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.9 5 km S of Jagual, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.0 1 km NNW of Punta Santiago, Puerto Rico
  9. 3.4 2 km SE of Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.4 2 km NW of Punta Santiago, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.0 4 km NW of Yaurel, Puerto Rico
  12. 3.4 3 km NNE of Benitez, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.9 2 km NNW of Punta Santiago, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.8 29 km S of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.8 8 km S of Esperanza, 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 4.8 on 2021-10-08 — it released about 3,600 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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