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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.3md

17 km NNW of Camuy, Puerto Rico

· 13 km deep · released about 98 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (md)
Depth
13 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Quebradillas Municipio, 19 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 573 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 98 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 5.8 150,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 110,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 9.8× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 98 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 18.6330, -66.8955. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Quebradillas Municipio, PR 19 km (12 mi) N of here earthquakes near Quebradillas Municipio
Isabela Municipio, PR 21 km (13 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Isabela Municipio
Camuy Municipio, PR 21 km (13 mi) N of here earthquakes near Camuy Municipio
Hatillo Municipio, PR 24 km (15 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Hatillo Municipio
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 31 km (19 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio
Arecibo Municipio, PR 32 km (20 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Arecibo Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 3 km SW of Utuado, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.7 5 km WSW of Las Marías, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.0 45 km NNE of Isabela, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.2 3 km NE of Las Marias, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.8 1 km ENE of Las Marías, Puerto Rico
  6. 3.0 14 km N of Arecibo, Puerto Rico
  7. 3.4 58 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.9 20 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  9. 3.0 26 km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico
  10. 3.0 12 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.3 3 km WNW of Maricao, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.2 3 km NE of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.8 19 km N of Arecibo, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.6 2 km WNW of Piedra Gorda, Puerto Rico
  15. 3.0 2 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, 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 4.8 on 2019-11-29 — it released about 4,600 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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