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M 2.8md

Mona Passage

· 17 km deep · released about 480 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Isabela Municipio 15 kmQuebradillas Municipio 19 kmAguadilla Municipio 20 kmCamuy Municipio 25 kmMoca Municipio 27 kmHatillo Municipio 31 kmAguada Municipio 32 kmSan Sebastián Municipio 32 kmAñasco Municipio 38 km
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 2.8 (md)
Depth
17 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Isabela Municipio, 15 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1114 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 480 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 32,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 22,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.8 about 480 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 18.6150, -67.0225. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Isabela Municipio, PR 15 km (9 mi) N of here earthquakes near Isabela Municipio
Quebradillas Municipio, PR 19 km (12 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Quebradillas Municipio
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 20 km (12 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio
Camuy Municipio, PR 25 km (16 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Camuy Municipio
Moca Municipio, PR 27 km (17 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Moca Municipio
Hatillo Municipio, PR 31 km (19 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Hatillo Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.2 49 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.6 4 km NNE of Carrizales, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.2 Puerto Rico region
  4. 2.8 26 km NNE of Isabela, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.9 35 km N of Carrizales, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.8 Mona Passage
  7. 2.8 20 km N of Carrizales, Puerto Rico
  8. 3.6 Mona Passage
  9. 2.4 3 km W of Cayuco, Puerto Rico
  10. 3.0 40 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.6 16 km NNW of Camuy, Puerto Rico
  12. 3.1 45 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  13. 3.0 44 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  14. 3.2 46 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  15. 3.2 40 km NW of Aguadilla, 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 5.1 on 2019-09-24 — it released about 2,500 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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