134 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico

2016-07-29 20:12 UTC · 25 km deep · released about 85 lb of TNT

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: 2016-07-29 20:12 UTC
Magnitude: M 2.3 (Md)
Depth: 25 km below the surface
Felt: no reports yet
Nearest: Dorado Municipio, 154 km SW
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS 3712 days ago · we first saw it 3712 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 85 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.

Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 180,000× the energy of this one
Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 130,000× the energy of this one
Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 11× the energy of this one
This earthquake M 2.3 about 85 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

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Epicentre 19.5450, -65.3275. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

Place	Distance	Direction
Dorado Municipio, PR	154 km (96 mi)	NE of here	earthquakes near Dorado Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

2.5 128 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands 15:25 UTC
2.7 Puerto Rico region 19:44 UTC
3.0 123 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico 11:02 UTC
2.2 90 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico 23:58 UTC
2.4 88 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico 23:55 UTC
2.5 Puerto Rico region 23:23 UTC
2.3 87 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico 23:15 UTC
2.8 104 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands 17:05 UTC
2.6 160 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico 17:56 UTC
2.4 126 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands 15:32 UTC
2.3 113 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands 20:17 UTC
3.1 139 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico 01:06 UTC
3.0 141 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico 06:13 UTC
3.2 91 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico 21:25 UTC
3.1 96 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico 17:29 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 21:37 UTC. 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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