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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.9md

0 km NE of Guayanilla, Puerto Rico

· 9.0 km deep · released about 700 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.9 (md)
Depth
9.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Guayanilla Municipio, 3 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2381 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 18.0243, -66.7853. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Guayanilla Municipio, PR 3 km (2 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Guayanilla Municipio
Peñuelas Municipio, PR 6 km (4 mi) W of here earthquakes near Peñuelas Municipio
Yauco Municipio, PR 10 km (6 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Yauco Municipio
Guánica Municipio, PR 17 km (10 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Guánica Municipio
Adjuntas Municipio, PR 18 km (11 mi) S of here earthquakes near Adjuntas Municipio
Sabana Grande Municipio, PR 18 km (11 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Sabana Grande Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 0 km SW of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico
  2. 1.9 8 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.3 1 km WSW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico
  4. 3.0 25 km SSW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico
  5. 1.8 5 km SSE of Indios, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.0 8 km SSE of Indios, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.0 1 km NW of Guayanilla, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.3 1 km S of Guayanilla, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.9 11 km SSW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.1 0 km SSW of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.0 2 km SW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  12. 1.9 5 km SE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  13. 1.6 2 km NNE of Guayanilla, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.3 4 km SSW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.1 1 km NW of Indios, 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 6.4 on 2020-01-07 — it released about 170,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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