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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.9md

12 km NNE of Isabela, Puerto Rico

· 82 km deep · released about 570 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
82 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Isabela Municipio, 13 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3078 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 570 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 27,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 19,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1.7× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.9 about 570 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 18.6010, -66.9803. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Isabela Municipio, PR 13 km (8 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Isabela Municipio
Quebradillas Municipio, PR 16 km (10 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Quebradillas Municipio
Camuy Municipio, PR 21 km (13 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Camuy Municipio
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 22 km (14 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio
Hatillo Municipio, PR 26 km (16 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Hatillo Municipio
Moca Municipio, PR 27 km (17 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Moca Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.4 14 km NNW of Isabela, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.4 12 km N of Arecibo, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.0 6 km ESE of Maricao, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.2 19 km N of Arecibo, Puerto Rico
  5. 3.0 25 km NW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.6 27 km N of Arecibo, Puerto Rico
  7. 1.6 36 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.8 Puerto Rico region
  9. 2.2 3 km ESE of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
  10. 1.9 Puerto Rico region
  11. 2.9 52 km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.8 Puerto Rico region
  13. 2.3 18 km NNE of Hatillo, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.6 49 km N of Arecibo, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.9 3 km NW of Mayagüez, 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 2017-10-14 — it released about 150 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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