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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.6ml

51 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico

· 47 km deep · released about 240 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.6 (ml)
Depth
47 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Mayagüez Municipio, 22 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1510 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 240 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 63,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 45,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 240 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 18.1347, -67.6897. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mayagüez Municipio, PR 22 km (13 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Mayagüez Municipio
Rincón Municipio, PR 52 km (32 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Cabo Rojo Municipio, PR 56 km (35 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Cabo Rojo Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 60 km (37 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Hormigueros Municipio, PR 61 km (38 mi) W of here earthquakes near Hormigueros Municipio
Añasco Municipio, PR 61 km (38 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.6 59 km W of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.6 34 km NW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  3. 1.6 12 km NW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.9 45 km WNW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.2 7 km SW of La Playa, Puerto Rico
  6. 1.9 5 km WNW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  7. 3.2 10 km W of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.9 51 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.9 69 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.9 65 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  11. 2.4 30 km SW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  12. 3.3 64 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  13. 3.2 53 km W of Stella, Puerto Rico
  14. 3.1 24 km W of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  15. 3.9 56 km ESE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic

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 4.4 on 2017-10-01 — it released about 500 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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