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M 2.4md

Earthquake near Coto Laurel, PR

No earthquake was likely felt in Coto Laurel in the 24 hours to 12:57 am AST (04:57 UTC). The last one was M 3.0, 35 km (22 mi) WSW, at 3:45 am AST on 8 November 2026, estimated intensity II (weak) in town. Every earthquake near Coto Laurel

This page: a magnitude 2.4 earthquake was recorded in Coto Laurel, PR, at 11:39 pm AST on 27 March 2025 (03:39 UTC), 18 km deep.

USGS: 1 km ESE of Coto Laurel, Puerto Rico

10 km (6 mi) ENE of Ponce, PR

11:39 pm AST, Mar 27, 2025 · · 18 km deep · released about 100 lb of TNT

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When
11:39 pm AST on 27 March 2025 ()
Where
in Coto Laurel, PR · earthquakes near Coto Laurel
Magnitude
M 2.4 (md)
Depth
18 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Juana Díaz Municipio, 7 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 594 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

At this magnitude and depth, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 10 km (6 mi) from the epicentre. Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.

Likely felt in: Río Cañas Abajo 8 km, intensity II · Ponce 10 km, intensity II. Estimated for each town centre; each link is that town's own record.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 100 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.4 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 9.4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.4 about 100 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km since 2016 was M 6.4 on 2020-01-07 — about 1,200,000 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists one earthquake of M5 or more within 50 km:

  1. 5.1 3 km W of Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico · 49 km ENE of this epicentre

Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.

Where

Epicentre 18.0445, -66.5403. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection from the epicentre
Juana Díaz Municipio, PR 7 km (5 mi) SE earthquakes near Juana Díaz Municipio
Ponce Municipio, PR 8 km (5 mi) SW earthquakes near Ponce Municipio
Villalba Municipio, PR 12 km (7 mi) NE earthquakes near Villalba Municipio
Santa Isabel Municipio, PR 19 km (12 mi) ESE earthquakes near Santa Isabel Municipio
Jayuya Municipio, PR 19 km (12 mi) NNW earthquakes near Jayuya Municipio
Peñuelas Municipio, PR 20 km (12 mi) W earthquakes near Peñuelas Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 5 km ESE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.5 10 km S of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.0 3 km SW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.5 1 km S of Indios, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.3 0 km ENE of Indios, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.3 1 km NE of Indios, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.3 4 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.4 1 km WNW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.7 2 km SSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.1 3 km S of Indios, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.4 1 km E of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.0 1 km W of Lluveras, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.0 4 km SSE of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.1 2 km W of Fuig, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.5 7 km SSE of Guánica, 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.

On USGS

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