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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.6md

8 km W of Orocovis, Puerto Rico

· 84 km deep · released about 230 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
84 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Orocovis Municipio, 3 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 824 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 230 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 65,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 46,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4.1× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 230 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 18.2163, -66.4692. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Orocovis Municipio, PR 3 km (2 mi) W of here earthquakes near Orocovis Municipio
Villalba Municipio, PR 10 km (6 mi) N of here earthquakes near Villalba Municipio
Ciales Municipio, PR 10 km (6 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Ciales Municipio
Morovis Municipio, PR 12 km (8 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Morovis Municipio
Jayuya Municipio, PR 12 km (8 mi) E of here earthquakes near Jayuya Municipio
Barranquitas Municipio, PR 17 km (11 mi) W of here earthquakes near Barranquitas Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 3 km SSW of Potala Pastillo, Puerto Rico
  2. 3.1 8 km SSW of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.1 1 km N of Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.3 3 km NNE of Yauco, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.0 6 km W of Orocovis, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.5 10 km S of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.5 6 km S of Indios, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.8 1 km NE of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.8 20 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.5 3 km SW of G. L. Garcia, Puerto Rico
  11. 3.4 6 km NNW of Vega Baja, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.6 5 km SSW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.6 4 km WNW of Orocovis, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.4 11 km S of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  15. 3.3 6 km WSW of Estancias de Florida, 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 520,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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