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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.7md

36 km S of Esperanza, Puerto Rico

· 9.0 km deep · released about 330 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.7 (md)
Depth
9.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Vieques Municipio, 40 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2986 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 330 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 46,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 33,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2.9× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.7 about 330 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 17.7670, -65.4295. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Vieques Municipio, PR 40 km (25 mi) S of here earthquakes near Vieques Municipio
Humacao Municipio, PR 56 km (35 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Humacao Municipio
Maunabo Municipio, PR 56 km (35 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Maunabo Municipio
Yabucoa Municipio, PR 56 km (35 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Yabucoa Municipio
Ceiba Municipio, PR 58 km (36 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Ceiba Municipio
Naguabo Municipio, PR 59 km (37 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Naguabo Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.1 29 km ESE of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.9 33 km W of Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
  3. 2.6 5 km SE of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  4. 1.9 21 km SSW of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.9 9 km ENE of Isabel Segunda, Puerto Rico
  6. 1.8 18 km ESE of El Negro, Puerto Rico
  7. 1.9 11 km S of Emajagua, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.6 14 km SW of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  9. 1.9 17 km SE of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.9 41 km ESE of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.3 39 km ESE of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.0 18 km SE of El Negro, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.4 21 km SE of El Negro, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.3 26 km SE of El Negro, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.9 73 km SSE of Emajagua, 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 2016-09-02 — it released about 260 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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