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M 2.6md

Puerto Rico region

· 17 km deep · released about 220 lb of TNT

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Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 2.6 (md)
Depth
17 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Guayanilla Municipio, 6 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1212 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 220 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 70,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 50,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4.4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 220 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 17.9587, -66.7652. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Guayanilla Municipio, PR 6 km (4 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Guayanilla Municipio
Peñuelas Municipio, PR 9 km (5 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Peñuelas Municipio
Guánica Municipio, PR 17 km (10 mi) E of here earthquakes near Guánica Municipio
Yauco Municipio, PR 17 km (11 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Yauco Municipio
Ponce Municipio, PR 17 km (11 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Ponce Municipio
Sabana Grande Municipio, PR 24 km (15 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Sabana Grande Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.0 Puerto Rico region
  2. 3.6 3 km NNE of Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.2 6 km WSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.7 4 km SSE of Ciales, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.3 3 km W of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico
  6. 1.9 3 km WSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.4 12 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.3 4 km SW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.5 4 km ESE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.8 3 km ESE of Jauca, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.5 6 km WSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.5 3 km SW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.3 2 km SE of Villalba, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.5 0 km WSW of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.2 4 km E of La Parguera, 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 560,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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