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M 2.7md

5 km SSW of La Playa, Puerto Rico

· 27 km deep · released about 350 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.7 (md)
Depth
27 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Añasco Municipio, 9 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1672 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 350 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 43,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 31,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2.7× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.7 about 350 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 18.2435, -67.2033. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Añasco Municipio, PR 9 km (6 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio
Rincón Municipio, PR 12 km (7 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 15 km (9 mi) S of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Hormigueros Municipio, PR 15 km (9 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Hormigueros Municipio
Moca Municipio, PR 20 km (12 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Moca Municipio
San Germán Municipio, PR 23 km (14 mi) NW of here earthquakes near San Germán 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. 2.7 2 km SSW of Liborio Negron Torres, Puerto Rico
  2. 1.8 6 km WSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.3 1 km NNW of Fuig, Puerto Rico
  4. 1.5 1 km ENE of Lluveras, Puerto Rico
  5. 1.8 1 km S of Lluveras, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.2 2 km N of Palomas, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.3 1 km SSW of Yauco, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.4 0 km N of Indios, Puerto Rico
  9. 1.9 5 km S of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.3 10 km SSW of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.2 7 km S of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.2 6 km ESE of Lajas, Puerto Rico
  13. 1.7 5 km E of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.8 6 km W of Fuig, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.0 6 km SSW of Liborio Negron Torres, 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 5.9 on 2020-01-11 — it released about 61,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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