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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.9md

76 km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico

· 18 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
18 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Isabela Municipio, 79 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2553 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 19.1743, -66.8495. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Isabela Municipio, PR 79 km (49 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Isabela Municipio
Quebradillas Municipio, PR 79 km (49 mi) N of here earthquakes near Quebradillas Municipio
Camuy Municipio, PR 81 km (50 mi) N of here earthquakes near Camuy Municipio
Hatillo Municipio, PR 82 km (51 mi) N of here earthquakes near Hatillo Municipio
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 83 km (52 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio
Barceloneta Municipio, PR 84 km (52 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Barceloneta Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.7 58 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.8 61 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.1 77 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.6 68 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.7 71 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  6. 3.0 Mona Passage
  7. 3.0 91 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico
  8. 3.0 68 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.3 61 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  10. 3.0 72 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  11. 3.0 66 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  12. 3.0 73 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  13. 3.0 75 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  14. 3.0 65 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.9 75 km N 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 6.0 on 2019-09-24 — it released about 43,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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