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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.9md

122 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico

· 94 km deep · released about 750 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 2.9 (md)
Depth
94 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Fajardo Municipio, 118 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3225 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 750 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 20,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 14,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1.3× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.9 about 750 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 19.4126, -65.2938. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Fajardo Municipio, PR 118 km (73 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Fajardo Municipio
Luquillo Municipio, PR 124 km (77 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Luquillo Municipio
Río Grande Municipio, PR 127 km (79 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Río Grande Municipio
Loíza Municipio, PR 127 km (79 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Loíza Municipio
Carolina Municipio, PR 133 km (83 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Carolina Municipio
San Juan Municipio, PR 137 km (85 mi) NE of here earthquakes near San Juan Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.4 109 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  2. 3.7 115 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.2 100 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  4. 3.4 85 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  5. 3.4 105 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  6. 3.2 103 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  7. 3.0 101 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  8. 3.0 112 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  9. 3.3 136 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  10. 3.4 97 km NNE of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  11. 3.2 97 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  12. 3.6 119 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  13. 3.4 97 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  14. 3.0 121 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  15. 3.6 98 km NNE of Vieques, 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 4.4 on 2017-08-14 — it released about 170 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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