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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.3md

0 km ENE of Parcelas La Milagrosa, Puerto Rico

· 21 km deep · released about 77 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (md)
Depth
21 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Cidra Municipio, 2 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 740 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 77 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 5.8 200,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 140,000× 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 77 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 18.1722, -66.1840. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Cidra Municipio, PR 2 km (1 mi) W of here earthquakes near Cidra Municipio
Comerío Municipio, PR 7 km (4 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Comerío Municipio
Cayey Municipio, PR 8 km (5 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Cayey Municipio
Aibonito Municipio, PR 10 km (6 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Aibonito Municipio
Aguas Buenas Municipio, PR 11 km (7 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Aguas Buenas Municipio
Barranquitas Municipio, PR 14 km (8 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Barranquitas Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 4 km NW of Orocovis, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.8 4 km WNW of Candelero Arriba, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.3 4 km SSE of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.0 3 km E of Santa Clara, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.5 18 km S of Lamboglia, Puerto Rico
  6. 3.0 18 km S of Lamboglia, Puerto Rico
  7. 3.0 11 km NNW of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.9 13 km SW of Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico
  9. 1.9 2 km W of Potala Pastillo, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.2 2 km E of Cayey, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.0 4 km NNW of Jobos, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.3 11 km SSE of Arroyo, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.5 5 km NNW of Jagual, Puerto Rico
  14. 3.3 2 km NNW of La Luisa, Puerto Rico
  15. 1.8 4 km NNW of Yaurel, 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 3,100 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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