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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.7md

3 km E of Ceiba, Puerto Rico

· 97 km deep · released about 310 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 2.7 (md)
Depth
97 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Ceiba Municipio, 2 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2646 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 310 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 50,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 35,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 3.1× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.7 about 310 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 18.2673, -65.6140. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Ceiba Municipio, PR 2 km (1 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Ceiba Municipio
Fajardo Municipio, PR 14 km (8 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Fajardo Municipio
Naguabo Municipio, PR 14 km (9 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Naguabo Municipio
Luquillo Municipio, PR 15 km (9 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Luquillo Municipio
Río Grande Municipio, PR 23 km (14 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Río Grande Municipio
Humacao Municipio, PR 23 km (15 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Humacao Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 26 km SE of Emajagua, Puerto Rico
  2. 1.6 18 km SE of El Negro, Puerto Rico
  3. 1.6 23 km SE of Emajagua, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.5 24 km SE of Emajagua, Puerto Rico
  5. 1.6 25 km ESE of El Negro, Puerto Rico
  6. 1.6 21 km SE of El Negro, Puerto Rico
  7. 1.6 19 km ESE of El Negro, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.7 31 km SSW of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.5 Puerto Rico region
  10. 2.0 22 km ESE of El Negro, Puerto Rico
  11. 1.7 15 km E of Luis M. Cintron, Puerto Rico
  12. 1.7 7 km NE of Luis M. Cintron, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.2 9 km SSE of Daguao, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.5 38 km NNW of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.4 31 km N of Culebra, 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 790 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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