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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.3md

3 km NNE of El Ojo, Puerto Rico

· 16 km deep · released about 82 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (md)
Depth
16 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Coamo Municipio, 8 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 876 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 82 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 5.8 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 130,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 12× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 82 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 18.0312, -66.3775. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Coamo Municipio, PR 8 km (5 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Coamo Municipio
Santa Isabel Municipio, PR 9 km (5 mi) N of here earthquakes near Santa Isabel Municipio
Juana Díaz Municipio, PR 13 km (8 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Juana Díaz Municipio
Salinas Municipio, PR 14 km (9 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Salinas Municipio
Villalba Municipio, PR 15 km (9 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Villalba Municipio
Aibonito Municipio, PR 16 km (10 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Aibonito Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 3 km E of Pastos, Puerto Rico
  2. 1.7 2 km NE of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.2 6 km SSW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.1 1 km S of Yauco, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.3 4 km S of Indios, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.3 5 km WSW of Central Aguirre, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.8 3 km SE of Indios, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.6 2 km SE of Indios, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.6 3 km WNW of Orocovis, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.5 0 km SE of Indios, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.1 1 km SE of Indios, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.3 2 km SE of Indios, Puerto Rico
  13. 1.9 4 km SSW of Comerío, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.6 4 km SSE of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  15. 1.9 6 km SSW of Indios, 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 1,500,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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