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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.9Md

108 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico

· 50 km deep · released about 680 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Fajardo Municipio 104 kmCulebra Municipio 108 kmLuquillo Municipio 109 kmRío Grande Municipio 112 kmLoíza Municipio 112 kmCarolina Municipio 118 kmCeiba Municipio 119 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.9 (Md)
Depth
50 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Fajardo Municipio, 104 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3534 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 680 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 22,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 16,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1.4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.9 about 680 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 19.2982, -65.3740. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Fajardo Municipio, PR 104 km (65 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Fajardo Municipio
Culebra Municipio, PR 108 km (67 mi) N of here earthquakes near Culebra Municipio
Luquillo Municipio, PR 109 km (68 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Luquillo Municipio
Río Grande Municipio, PR 112 km (69 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Río Grande Municipio
Loíza Municipio, PR 112 km (70 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Loíza Municipio
Carolina Municipio, PR 118 km (73 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Carolina Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.2 71 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.9 67 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.1 89 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  4. 3.2 111 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  5. 3.3 109 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  6. 3.0 124 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  7. 3.2 140 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  8. 3.4 103 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  9. 3.5 104 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  10. 3.1 112 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  11. 3.2 113 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  12. 3.4 114 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  13. 4.2 112 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  14. 3.0 74 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  15. 3.0 75 km N of Culebra, 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 4.3 on 2016-09-04 — it released about 130 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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