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M 2.3md

6 km WNW of Palomas, Puerto Rico

· 22 km deep · released about 74 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (md)
Depth
22 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Corozal Municipio, 5 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 706 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 74 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 13× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 74 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 18.2568, -66.3168. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Corozal Municipio, PR 5 km (3 mi) S of here earthquakes near Corozal Municipio
Barranquitas Municipio, PR 6 km (4 mi) N of here earthquakes near Barranquitas Municipio
Naranjito Municipio, PR 8 km (5 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Naranjito Municipio
Comerío Municipio, PR 11 km (7 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Comerío Municipio
Morovis Municipio, PR 13 km (8 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Morovis Municipio
Orocovis Municipio, PR 13 km (8 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Orocovis Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 6 km NW of Palomas, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.8 6 km WNW of Palomas, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.2 7 km NW of Palomas, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.2 2 km ESE of Tallaboa Alta, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.3 4 km ESE of Tallaboa Alta, Puerto Rico
  6. 3.0 0 km WNW of Candelaria, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.0 2 km WNW of Orocovis, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.5 3 km E of Tallaboa, 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.

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