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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.9md

1 km S of Los Llanos, Puerto Rico

· 14 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
14 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Coamo Municipio, 9 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2385 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

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 18.0421, -66.4068. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Coamo Municipio, PR 9 km (5 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Coamo Municipio
Juana Díaz Municipio, PR 10 km (6 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Juana Díaz Municipio
Santa Isabel Municipio, PR 10 km (6 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Santa Isabel Municipio
Villalba Municipio, PR 12 km (7 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Villalba Municipio
Salinas Municipio, PR 17 km (11 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Salinas Municipio
Aibonito Municipio, PR 18 km (11 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Aibonito Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 2 km ESE of Palomas, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.8 3 km S of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.7 1 km WNW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico
  4. 3.2 6 km SSW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.6 5 km S of Indios, Puerto Rico
  6. 1.9 9 km S of Indios, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.5 10 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.4 2 km ESE of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.9 8 km S of Indios, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.3 11 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.2 3 km ENE of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.4 9 km SSE of Indios, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.5 2 km WNW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.7 1 km SSE of Indios, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.9 1 km W 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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