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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.9md

101 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico

· 17 km deep · released about 590 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
17 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Aguadilla Municipio, 102 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2476 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 590 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 26,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 18,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1.6× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.9 about 590 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 19.3813, -67.3448. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 102 km (64 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio
Isabela Municipio, PR 106 km (66 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Isabela Municipio
Quebradillas Municipio, PR 111 km (69 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Quebradillas Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 113 km (70 mi) N of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Moca Municipio, PR 115 km (71 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Moca Municipio
Camuy Municipio, PR 116 km (72 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Camuy 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. 2.6 98 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.5 71 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.9 Mona Passage
  4. 2.9 104 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.8 101 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  6. 3.0 101 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.8 87 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.8 105 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.9 105 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.8 89 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  11. 3.6 84 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  12. 3.0 104 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  13. 3.0 94 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  14. 2.7 98 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  15. 2.7 88 km N of Isabela, 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 51,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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