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M 2.3md

5 km SW of Guánica, Puerto Rico

· 15 km deep · released about 72 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (md)
Depth
15 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Guánica Municipio, 3 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1265 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 72 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 210,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 150,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 13× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 72 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 17.9297, -66.9392. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Guánica Municipio, PR 3 km (2 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Guánica Municipio
Lajas Municipio, PR 12 km (7 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Lajas Municipio
Guayanilla Municipio, PR 17 km (11 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Guayanilla Municipio
Sabana Grande Municipio, PR 17 km (11 mi) S of here earthquakes near Sabana Grande Municipio
Yauco Municipio, PR 19 km (12 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Yauco Municipio
San Germán Municipio, PR 22 km (14 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near San Germán Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.5 3 km NW of Yauco, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.7 5 km WSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.5 8 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.5 6 km WSW of Fuig, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.8 Puerto Rico region
  6. 2.4 Puerto Rico region
  7. 2.9 Puerto Rico region
  8. 1.7 5 km S of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.3 Puerto Rico region
  10. 2.0 8 km SSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  11. 3.0 Puerto Rico region
  12. 2.0 6 km WSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.6 6 km WSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  14. 3.0 Puerto Rico region
  15. 2.2 2 km ESE of Yauco, 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 1,700,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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