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Earthquake near Magas Arriba, PR

Yes: an earthquake was likely felt in Magas Arriba in the last 24 hours. M 2.1, 9 km (5 mi) WSW of Magas Arriba, at 4:14 pm AST on 11 November 2026 (20:14 UTC); the estimated shaking in Magas Arriba was intensity II (weak). Every earthquake near Magas Arriba

This page: a magnitude 2.0 earthquake was recorded in Magas Arriba, PR, at 3:24 am AST on 16 December 2025 (07:24 UTC), 16 km deep.

USGS: 1 km ESE of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico

14 km (9 mi) W of Ponce, PR

3:24 am AST, Dec 16, 2025 · · 16 km deep · released about 27 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Peñuelas Municipio 3 kmGuayanilla Municipio 5 kmYauco Municipio 13 kmPonce Municipio 16 kmAdjuntas Municipio 19 kmGuánica Municipio 19 kmSabana Grande Municipio 22 kmMaricao Municipio 26 kmJuana Díaz Municipio 28 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
3:24 am AST on 16 December 2025 ()
Where
in Magas Arriba, PR · earthquakes near Magas Arriba
Magnitude
M 2.0 (md)
Depth
16 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Peñuelas Municipio, 3 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 331 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

At this magnitude and depth it was probably too small to be felt, even directly above it. Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.

Earthquakes near other towns within 30 km: Guayanilla, Tallaboa, Santo Domingo, Peñuelas, Indios, Tallaboa Alta.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 27 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 560,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 390,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 35× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 27 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km since 2016 was M 6.4 on 2020-01-07 — about 4,400,000 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record since 1900 lists no earthquake of M5 or more within 50 km.

Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.

Where

Epicentre 18.0122, -66.7563. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection from the epicentre
Peñuelas Municipio, PR 3 km (2 mi) ENE earthquakes near Peñuelas Municipio
Guayanilla Municipio, PR 5 km (3 mi) W earthquakes near Guayanilla Municipio
Yauco Municipio, PR 13 km (8 mi) NW earthquakes near Yauco Municipio
Ponce Municipio, PR 16 km (10 mi) E earthquakes near Ponce Municipio
Adjuntas Municipio, PR 19 km (12 mi) N earthquakes near Adjuntas Municipio
Guánica Municipio, PR 19 km (12 mi) WSW earthquakes near Guánica Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 2 km E of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.2 2 km NNW of Guayanilla, Puerto Rico
  3. 1.9 1 km ENE of Fuig, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.9 2 km SSE of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.5 4 km SSE of Indios, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.3 4 km S of Indios, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.8 3 km N of San Germán, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.3 1 km NE of Lajas, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.6 6 km SW of Las Marías, Puerto Rico
  10. 1.9 2 km SSE of Yauco, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.4 6 km NNE of Yauco, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.3 6 km WNW of Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.9 2 km E of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.1 4 km SSW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.4 2 km S 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.

On USGS

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