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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.2md

11 km SSE of Jobos, Puerto Rico

· 8.4 km deep · released about 58 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.2 (md)
Depth
8.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Guayama Municipio, 13 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 316 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 58 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 260,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 180,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 16× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.2 about 58 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 17.8607, -66.1113. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Guayama Municipio, PR 13 km (8 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Guayama Municipio
Arroyo Municipio, PR 14 km (9 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Arroyo Municipio
Salinas Municipio, PR 20 km (13 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Salinas Municipio
Patillas Municipio, PR 20 km (13 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Patillas Municipio
Cayey Municipio, PR 27 km (17 mi) S of here earthquakes near Cayey Municipio
Maunabo Municipio, PR 28 km (17 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Maunabo Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 6 km S of Central Aguirre, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.2 2 km WNW of Potala Pastillo, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.6 2 km WSW of G. L. Garcia, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.0 2 km SSW of Vázquez, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.0 0 km WSW of Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico
  6. 1.9 0 km SW of G. L. Garcia, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.6 26 km SE of El Negro, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.1 3 km NNW of Palomas, Puerto Rico
  9. 1.6 1 km SW of G. L. Garcia, Puerto Rico
  10. 1.8 7 km ESE of G. L. Garcia, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.4 3 km SSE of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  12. 1.7 1 km WSW of G. L. Garcia, Puerto Rico
  13. 1.7 2 km NW of Las Ollas, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.0 1 km SSE of Cidra, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.4 1 km WSW of Las Ochenta, 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 4,100 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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