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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.9md

1 km E of Jobos, Puerto Rico

· 14 km deep · released about 650 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
14 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Guayama Municipio, 3 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2675 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 650 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 23,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 16,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1.5× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.9 about 650 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 17.9561, -66.1551. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Guayama Municipio, PR 3 km (2 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Guayama Municipio
Salinas Municipio, PR 11 km (7 mi) E of here earthquakes near Salinas Municipio
Arroyo Municipio, PR 12 km (8 mi) W of here earthquakes near Arroyo Municipio
Cayey Municipio, PR 16 km (10 mi) S of here earthquakes near Cayey Municipio
Patillas Municipio, PR 18 km (11 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Patillas Municipio
Aibonito Municipio, PR 23 km (14 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Aibonito Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 5 km SSW of Arroyo, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.0 2 km NE of Jobos, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.3 21 km SSE of Arroyo, Puerto Rico
  4. 1.7 4 km ENE of Bayamon, Puerto Rico
  5. 1.9 0 km SSE of Jobos, Puerto Rico
  6. 1.5 1 km E of Jobos, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.2 7 km WNW of Palomas, Puerto Rico
  8. 1.8 3 km ENE of Jobos, Puerto Rico
  9. 1.9 0 km NNE of Jobos, Puerto Rico
  10. 1.8 1 km ESE of Jobos, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.2 1 km S of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  12. 1.6 3 km ESE of La Plena, Puerto Rico
  13. 1.5 3 km ENE of La Plena, Puerto Rico
  14. 1.9 0 km NNE of Jobos, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.8 0 km SSE of Jobos, 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 4.6 on 2016-12-05 — it released about 370 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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