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M 2.4md

0 km W of Palomas, Puerto Rico

· 14 km deep · released about 120 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.4 (md)
Depth
14 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Yauco Municipio, 8 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 415 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 120 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 5.8 120,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 86,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 7.7× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.4 about 120 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 18.0138, -66.8823. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Yauco Municipio, PR 8 km (5 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Yauco Municipio
Guánica Municipio, PR 8 km (5 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Guánica Municipio
Guayanilla Municipio, PR 9 km (6 mi) W of here earthquakes near Guayanilla Municipio
Sabana Grande Municipio, PR 10 km (6 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Sabana Grande Municipio
Peñuelas Municipio, PR 16 km (10 mi) W of here earthquakes near Peñuelas Municipio
Lajas Municipio, PR 17 km (11 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Lajas 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. 2.2 5 km SW of Fuig, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.3 1 km ESE of Indios, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.2 3 km W of Fuig, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.2 1 km W of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.7 1 km S of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.1 6 km SE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.0 1 km NNW of Guayanilla, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.5 3 km S of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  9. 3.3 3 km S of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.1 0 km NNW of Palmarejo, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.6 2 km NE of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.7 16 km W of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico
  13. 1.8 4 km ESE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.0 3 km WSW of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.0 1 km NE of Guayanilla, 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 970,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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