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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.3md

11 km S of Arroyo, Puerto Rico

· 13 km deep · released about 91 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (md)
Depth
13 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Arroyo Municipio, 13 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 911 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 91 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 5.8 170,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 120,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 10× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 91 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 17.8607, -66.0763. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Arroyo Municipio, PR 13 km (8 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Arroyo Municipio
Guayama Municipio, PR 14 km (9 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Guayama Municipio
Patillas Municipio, PR 18 km (11 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Patillas Municipio
Salinas Municipio, PR 23 km (14 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Salinas Municipio
Maunabo Municipio, PR 25 km (15 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Maunabo Municipio
Cayey Municipio, PR 28 km (18 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Cayey Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 3 km SSW of Potala Pastillo, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.5 3 km SW of G. L. Garcia, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.4 11 km S of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.6 4 km SE of Jauca, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.9 26 km SSE of Arroyo, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.5 11 km S of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.8 2 km SE of Río Cañas Abajo, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.8 18 km SSE of Lamboglia, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.5 5 km SE of El Negro, Puerto Rico
  10. 1.6 2 km W of Mariano Colón, Puerto Rico
  11. 3.1 3 km NE of Martorell, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.3 0 km W of Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico
  13. 3.2 21 km SSE of Lamboglia, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.3 4 km S of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.5 1 km SW of El Ojo, 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 4.6 on 2016-12-05 — it released about 2,600 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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