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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.9md

73 km W of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico

· 57 km deep · released about 700 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
57 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mayagüez Municipio, 6 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2930 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 700 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 15,000× 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 700 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 18.0335, -67.8813. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mayagüez Municipio, PR 6 km (3 mi) S of here earthquakes near Mayagüez Municipio
Cabo Rojo Municipio, PR 74 km (46 mi) W of here earthquakes near Cabo Rojo Municipio
Rincón Municipio, PR 75 km (46 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Hormigueros Municipio, PR 82 km (51 mi) W of here earthquakes near Hormigueros Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 83 km (51 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Añasco Municipio, PR 84 km (52 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.9 50 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  2. 2.9 58 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  3. 2.8 63 km W of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  4. 3.3 33 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.8 43 km SSE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  6. 3.2 72 km W of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.8 36 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.7 35 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  9. 3.0 71 km ESE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  10. 3.0 77 km WSW of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.8 66 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  12. 3.1 71 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.7 54 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  14. 3.0 Dominican Republic region
  15. 2.8 53 km W of Puerto Real, 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 2017-07-18 — it released about 120 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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