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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.9md

2 km NE of Guaynabo, Puerto Rico

· 104 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
104 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Guaynabo Municipio, 4 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2526 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 18.3718, -66.0961. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Guaynabo Municipio, PR 4 km (2 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Guaynabo Municipio
San Juan Municipio, PR 6 km (4 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near San Juan Municipio
Bayamón Municipio, PR 8 km (5 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Bayamón Municipio
Cataño Municipio, PR 10 km (6 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Cataño Municipio
Trujillo Alto Municipio, PR 11 km (7 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Trujillo Alto Municipio
Aguas Buenas Municipio, PR 13 km (8 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Aguas Buenas Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 2 km SW of Vázquez, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.5 1 km SW of Bairoa, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.0 2 km WSW of Vázquez, Puerto Rico
  4. 3.1 0 km ESE of Río Lajas, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.6 17 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico
  6. 3.2 25 km N of Loíza, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.7 12 km NNE of Dorado, Puerto Rico
  8. 1.7 4 km SSE of Arroyo, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.4 1 km WSW of Coco, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.3 3 km NNE of La Plena, Puerto Rico
  11. 3.0 2 km NNW of Sabana, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.7 3 km N of Vega Baja, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.2 2 km NNE of Emajagua, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.8 14 km NNW of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.4 34 km N of San Juan, 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 2019-03-12 — 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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