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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.9md

78 km NW of Rincón, Puerto Rico

· 91 km deep · released about 720 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Aguadilla Municipio 76 kmRincón Municipio 79 kmAguada Municipio 80 kmIsabela Municipio 87 kmMoca Municipio 88 kmAñasco Municipio 91 kmMayagüez Municipio 92 kmQuebradillas Municipio 96 kmSan Sebastián Municipio 101 km
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
91 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Aguadilla Municipio, 76 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2959 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 720 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 21,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 15,000× 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 720 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 18.8943, -67.7161. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 76 km (47 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio
Rincón Municipio, PR 79 km (49 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 80 km (50 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Isabela Municipio, PR 87 km (54 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Isabela Municipio
Moca Municipio, PR 88 km (55 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Moca Municipio
Añasco Municipio, PR 91 km (57 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.7 46 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.8 82 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  3. 2.7 42 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.2 95 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  5. 3.3 61 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  6. 2.7 61 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.6 36 km NW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.7 40 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  9. 3.1 61 km WNW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.8 Mona Passage
  11. 2.7 46 km ENE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  12. 2.8 45 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  13. 3.1 107 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  14. 2.2 52 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.6 46 km NW of San Antonio, 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 2017-10-01 — 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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