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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.7md

3 km SSE of San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico

· 23 km deep · released about 360 lb of TNT

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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 2.7 (md)
Depth
23 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
San Lorenzo Municipio, 3 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 392 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 360 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 42,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 30,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2.6× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.7 about 360 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 18.1627, -65.9542. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
San Lorenzo Municipio, PR 3 km (2 mi) NE of here earthquakes near San Lorenzo Municipio
Juncos Municipio, PR 8 km (5 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Juncos Municipio
Las Piedras Municipio, PR 9 km (6 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Las Piedras Municipio
Caguas Municipio, PR 12 km (7 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Caguas Municipio
Gurabo Municipio, PR 13 km (8 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Gurabo Municipio
Yabucoa Municipio, PR 15 km (9 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Yabucoa Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 1 km ENE of Cayey, Puerto Rico
  2. 1.8 2 km E of Cayey, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.1 2 km NE of Bayamón, Puerto Rico
  4. 3.1 1 km SSE of Guaynabo, Puerto Rico
  5. 1.9 1 km E of Cayey, Puerto Rico
  6. 1.8 3 km NNE of Jobos, Puerto Rico
  7. 3.3 5 km NNE of Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico
  8. 1.9 3 km E of G. L. Garcia, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.8 2 km NW of Levittown, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.0 9 km S of Emajagua, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.7 4 km ESE of Jagual, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.5 2 km SSW of Cayey, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.9 6 km NNW of Loíza, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.6 5 km NNW of Coamo, Puerto Rico
  15. 1.8 2 km NNW of La Plena, 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 660 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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