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M 2.9md

11 km N of Camuy, Puerto Rico

· 106 km deep · released about 680 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
106 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Quebradillas Municipio, 16 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1554 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 680 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 16,000× 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 680 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 18.5913, -66.8508. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Quebradillas Municipio, PR 16 km (10 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Quebradillas Municipio
Camuy Municipio, PR 16 km (10 mi) N of here earthquakes near Camuy Municipio
Hatillo Municipio, PR 18 km (11 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Hatillo Municipio
Isabela Municipio, PR 21 km (13 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Isabela Municipio
Arecibo Municipio, PR 25 km (16 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Arecibo Municipio
San Sebastián Municipio, PR 32 km (20 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near San Sebastián Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.6 Puerto Rico region
  2. 3.1 59 km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.4 5 km ESE of Las Marías, Puerto Rico
  4. 3.1 31 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.9 21 km NNW of Camuy, Puerto Rico
  6. 3.2 17 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico
  7. 3.0 4 km NNW of Vega Baja, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.0 11 km SSE of Lares, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.8 14 km NNE of Hatillo, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.4 2 km WNW of San Sebastián, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.9 16 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.9 22 km N of Arecibo, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.9 46 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.0 2 km SW of Lares, Puerto Rico
  15. 3.5 3 km S of Animas, 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.

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