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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.9md

17 km SW of Stella, Puerto Rico

· 27 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
27 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Rincón Municipio, 18 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1458 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 18.2110, -67.3618. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Rincón Municipio, PR 18 km (11 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Añasco Municipio, PR 26 km (16 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 26 km (16 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Hormigueros Municipio, PR 27 km (17 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Hormigueros Municipio
Cabo Rojo Municipio, PR 31 km (19 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Cabo Rojo Municipio
Moca Municipio, PR 35 km (22 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Moca Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 4 km E of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.6 3 km SSE of Lajas, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.9 Mona Passage
  4. 2.6 5 km ESE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  5. 1.7 4 km SE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  6. 3.2 5 km SSW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.0 5 km E of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.6 6 km ENE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.2 5 km ENE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  10. 1.8 Puerto Rico region
  11. 2.0 Puerto Rico region
  12. 2.1 5 km WNW of Hormigueros, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.8 6 km ESE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.4 5 km ESE of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico
  15. 1.7 2 km WSW of Palmarejo, 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 5.2 on 2020-01-15 — it released about 2,700 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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