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M 2.8md

17 km SSW of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico

· 16 km deep · released about 530 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.8 (md)
Depth
16 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Cabo Rojo Municipio, 20 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 519 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 530 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 29,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 20,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1.8× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.8 about 530 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 17.8228, -67.2398. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Cabo Rojo Municipio, PR 20 km (13 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Cabo Rojo Municipio
Lajas Municipio, PR 27 km (17 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Lajas Municipio
Guánica Municipio, PR 36 km (23 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Guánica Municipio
Hormigueros Municipio, PR 37 km (23 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Hormigueros Municipio
San Germán Municipio, PR 38 km (24 mi) SW of here earthquakes near San Germán Municipio
Sabana Grande Municipio, PR 42 km (26 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Sabana Grande Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.4 3 km SSE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.5 4 km SSW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.4 5 km S of Indios, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.7 1 km NNE of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.2 2 km SW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.7 10 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.3 1 km WSW of Palomas, Puerto Rico
  8. 1.7 13 km S of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.7 14 km SSE of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.6 2 km SW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.5 9 km SSE of Indios, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.1 3 km WSW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  13. 1.8 4 km ESE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.5 2 km ESE of Palomas, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.1 4 km ESE of Maria Antonia, 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 230,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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