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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.0md

0 km W of Mariano Colón, Puerto Rico

· 14 km deep · released about 30 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 2.0 (md)
Depth
14 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Coamo Municipio, 9 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 11 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 30 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 5.8 500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 32× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 30 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 18.0242, -66.3395. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Coamo Municipio, PR 9 km (6 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Coamo Municipio
Santa Isabel Municipio, PR 9 km (6 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Santa Isabel Municipio
Salinas Municipio, PR 10 km (6 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Salinas Municipio
Aibonito Municipio, PR 14 km (9 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Aibonito Municipio
Juana Díaz Municipio, PR 16 km (10 mi) E of here earthquakes near Juana Díaz Municipio
Villalba Municipio, PR 18 km (11 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Villalba Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.5 6 km SSE of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.1 7 km SSW of Capitanejo, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.3 2 km NNE of Guayanilla, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.1 2 km ESE of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.1 7 km SSE of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  6. 1.4 8 km SSE of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  7. 1.6 7 km SSE of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  8. 3.0 6 km SSE of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  9. 3.0 7 km SSE of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  10. 1.8 9 km SSE of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.2 1 km WNW of Aguilita, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.6 5 km NW of Guayabal, Puerto Rico
  13. 3.0 1 km ENE of Indios, 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 5.6 on 2020-01-07 — it released about 250,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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