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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.1md

15 km SSW of Potala Pastillo, Puerto Rico

· 15 km deep · released about 51 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Juana Díaz Municipio 17 kmPonce Municipio 18 kmSanta Isabel Municipio 19 kmPeñuelas Municipio 28 kmVillalba Municipio 32 kmSalinas Municipio 32 kmGuayanilla Municipio 33 kmCoamo Municipio 34 kmJayuya Municipio 40 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 2.1 (md)
Depth
15 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Juana Díaz Municipio, 17 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 399 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 51 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 5.8 300,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 210,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 19× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 51 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 17.8518, -66.5352. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Juana Díaz Municipio, PR 17 km (11 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Juana Díaz Municipio
Ponce Municipio, PR 18 km (11 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Ponce Municipio
Santa Isabel Municipio, PR 19 km (12 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Santa Isabel Municipio
Peñuelas Municipio, PR 28 km (18 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Peñuelas Municipio
Villalba Municipio, PR 32 km (20 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Villalba Municipio
Salinas Municipio, PR 32 km (20 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Salinas Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 3 km SSW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.4 2 km NNW of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.1 1 km ENE of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.2 1 km NE of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.0 9 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.3 8 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.4 0 km ESE of Indios, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.1 5 km SE of Indios, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.0 2 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.3 8 km SE of Indios, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.1 3 km SW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.1 3 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.4 4 km NW of Orocovis, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.5 10 km SSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.1 8 km SW 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 2,400,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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