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M 2.8md

25 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico

· 18 km deep · released about 460 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 2.8 (md)
Depth
18 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Rincón Municipio, 26 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1093 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 460 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 33,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 23,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2.1× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.8 about 460 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 18.2688, -67.4813. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Rincón Municipio, PR 26 km (16 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 33 km (21 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Añasco Municipio, PR 37 km (23 mi) W of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio
Hormigueros Municipio, PR 41 km (26 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Hormigueros Municipio
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 43 km (27 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio
Cabo Rojo Municipio, PR 44 km (27 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Cabo Rojo Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.4 Mona Passage
  2. 2.8 5 km NNW of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.9 26 km NW of Rincón, 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 4.4 on 2017-10-01 — it released about 260 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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