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M 2.3md

9 km SSE of Lares, Puerto Rico

· 27 km deep · released about 82 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (md)
Depth
27 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lares Municipio, 8 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 116 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 82 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 5.8 180,000× 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 82 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 18.2073, -66.8535. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lares Municipio, PR 8 km (5 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Lares Municipio
Maricao Municipio, PR 9 km (6 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Maricao Municipio
Adjuntas Municipio, PR 10 km (7 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Adjuntas Municipio
Las Marías Municipio, PR 13 km (8 mi) E of here earthquakes near Las Marías Municipio
Yauco Municipio, PR 14 km (8 mi) N of here earthquakes near Yauco Municipio
Sabana Grande Municipio, PR 17 km (10 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Sabana Grande Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 5 km SE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.0 5 km SSE of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.4 7 km SSW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.9 1 km S of Indios, Puerto Rico
  5. 1.9 2 km SW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  6. 1.9 1 km S of Indios, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.4 2 km SSW of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.1 2 km S of Maricao, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.0 1 km S of Maricao, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.7 2 km SW of Maricao, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.5 5 km NE of San Germán, Puerto Rico
  12. 1.8 3 km ESE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.2 9 km SSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.4 3 km SW of Maricao, Puerto Rico
  15. 1.9 2 km NNW of Guayanilla, 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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