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M 2.3md

1 km N of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico

· 12 km deep · released about 79 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (md)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Peñuelas Municipio, 4 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 410 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 79 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 5.8 190,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 130,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 12× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 79 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 18.0353, -66.7695. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Peñuelas Municipio, PR 4 km (3 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Peñuelas Municipio
Guayanilla Municipio, PR 5 km (3 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Guayanilla Municipio
Yauco Municipio, PR 11 km (7 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Yauco Municipio
Adjuntas Municipio, PR 16 km (10 mi) S of here earthquakes near Adjuntas Municipio
Ponce Municipio, PR 18 km (11 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Ponce Municipio
Guánica Municipio, PR 19 km (12 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Guánica Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 5 km S of Utuado, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.1 4 km WNW of Orocovis, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.1 6 km NW of Coto Laurel, Puerto Rico
  4. 3.1 5 km N of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.2 2 km NW of Guayanilla, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.2 11 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.1 2 km NNW of Yauco, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.3 9 km SSE of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.4 15 km SSE of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.6 5 km WSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.2 2 km SW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.1 3 km SSW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.3 8 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.4 6 km SE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.1 3 km SSW 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 6.4 on 2020-01-07 — it released about 1,500,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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