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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.9md

8 km NNE of Animas, Puerto Rico

· 88 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
88 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Barceloneta Municipio, 8 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2804 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 18.5243, -66.6140. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Barceloneta Municipio, PR 8 km (5 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Barceloneta Municipio
Arecibo Municipio, PR 12 km (7 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Arecibo Municipio
Manatí Municipio, PR 16 km (10 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Manatí Municipio
Florida Municipio, PR 18 km (11 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Florida Municipio
Hatillo Municipio, PR 22 km (13 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Hatillo Municipio
Vega Baja Municipio, PR 24 km (15 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Vega Baja Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.9 3 km N of Naranjito, Puerto Rico
  2. 1.8 13 km E of Maricao, Puerto Rico
  3. 1.7 10 km WNW of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.8 24 km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico
  5. 1.6 1 km NNW of Jayuya, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.2 2 km ESE of Las Marías, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.2 3 km ESE of Las Marías, Puerto Rico
  8. 1.7 2 km ESE of Las Marías, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.0 2 km NNE of Las Marías, Puerto Rico
  10. 1.9 3 km NNE of Las Marías, Puerto Rico
  11. 3.8 1 km ESE of Las Marías, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.4 7 km NNE of Hatillo, Puerto Rico
  13. 1.7 Puerto Rico region
  14. 2.2 26 km N of Dorado, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.5 7 km N of Quebradillas, 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 2018-12-09 — it released about 210 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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