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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.5ml

19 km S of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico

· 10 km deep · released about 170 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.5 (ml)
Depth
10 km below the surface
Felt
3 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Ponce Municipio, 22 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1511 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 3 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 170 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 89,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 63,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 5.6× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.5 about 170 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 17.8225, -66.7053. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Ponce Municipio, PR 22 km (14 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Ponce Municipio
Guayanilla Municipio, PR 23 km (14 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Guayanilla Municipio
Peñuelas Municipio, PR 23 km (14 mi) S of here earthquakes near Peñuelas Municipio
Guánica Municipio, PR 27 km (17 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Guánica Municipio
Juana Díaz Municipio, PR 30 km (19 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Juana Díaz Municipio
Yauco Municipio, PR 33 km (21 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Yauco Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 8 km SE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.1 0 km ESE of Indios, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.3 3 km S of Indios, Puerto Rico
  4. 4.0 2 km SSE of Indios, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.2 5 km S of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.4 1 km NNW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.3 1 km S of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.5 3 km SW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.3 0 km ENE of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.9 11 km S of Indios, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.5 5 km SSW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.5 6 km S of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.4 3 km SSE of Indios, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.5 4 km SE of Indios, Puerto Rico
  15. 3.1 10 km SSE 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 6.4 on 2020-01-07 — it released about 710,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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