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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.1md

4 km SSE of Juncos, Puerto Rico

· 17 km deep · released about 43 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.1 (md)
Depth
17 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Juncos Municipio, 4 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 563 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 43 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 350,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 250,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 22× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 43 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 18.1917, -65.9058. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Juncos Municipio, PR 4 km (2 mi) S of here earthquakes near Juncos Municipio
Las Piedras Municipio, PR 4 km (2 mi) W of here earthquakes near Las Piedras Municipio
San Lorenzo Municipio, PR 9 km (6 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near San Lorenzo Municipio
Gurabo Municipio, PR 12 km (7 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Gurabo Municipio
Humacao Municipio, PR 14 km (9 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Humacao Municipio
Yabucoa Municipio, PR 15 km (10 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Yabucoa Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.2 8 km NE of Dorado, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.6 6 km WSW of Guaynabo, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.0 3 km N of Palomas, Puerto Rico
  4. 3.6 1 km ESE of Carolina, Puerto Rico
  5. 1.8 1 km E of Mariano Colón, Puerto Rico
  6. 1.7 7 km NNE of Yaurel, Puerto Rico
  7. 3.6 1 km SSE of Galateo, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.8 5 km E of Naranjito, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.8 26 km SE of El Negro, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.5 5 km SSE of Bajandas, Puerto Rico
  11. 1.7 2 km E of Arroyo, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.1 5 km SSE of Bajandas, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.6 3 km ESE of Cataño, Puerto Rico
  14. 3.1 1 km S of Campanilla, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.3 1 km SSE of Salinas, 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 5,600 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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