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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.9md

14 km SSE of Guánica, Puerto Rico

· 13 km deep · released about 780 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
13 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Guánica Municipio, 13 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2148 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 780 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 19,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 14,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1.2× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.9 about 780 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 17.8453, -66.8588. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Guánica Municipio, PR 13 km (8 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Guánica Municipio
Guayanilla Municipio, PR 19 km (12 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Guayanilla Municipio
Lajas Municipio, PR 24 km (15 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Lajas Municipio
Peñuelas Municipio, PR 24 km (15 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Peñuelas Municipio
Yauco Municipio, PR 27 km (17 mi) S of here earthquakes near Yauco Municipio
Sabana Grande Municipio, PR 28 km (18 mi) SSE 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

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

  1. 2.3 0.7 km NW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.3 3.4 km NNE of Indios, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.5 1.8 km WNW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.3 1.4 km ENE of Indios, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.8 1.3 km ENE of Indios, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.1 1.7 km WSW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.0 4.8 km NNE of Indios, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.4 2 km NE of Indios, Puerto Rico
  9. 1.8 2.6 km NE of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.4 3.2 km NNW of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.1 5.8 km WSW of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  12. 1.7 4.5 km NNE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.2 2.1 km ENE of Fuig, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.3 9.3 km NW of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.3 4.3 km NNW of Guánica, 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 150,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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