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M 2.9md

Puerto Rico region

· 15 km deep · released about 590 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
15 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Guayanilla Municipio, 3 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1261 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 590 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 26,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 18,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1.6× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.9 about 590 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 17.9848, -66.7798. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Guayanilla Municipio, PR 3 km (2 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Guayanilla Municipio
Peñuelas Municipio, PR 7 km (4 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Peñuelas Municipio
Yauco Municipio, PR 14 km (9 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Yauco Municipio
Guánica Municipio, PR 16 km (10 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Guánica Municipio
Ponce Municipio, PR 18 km (11 mi) W of here earthquakes near Ponce Municipio
Sabana Grande Municipio, PR 21 km (13 mi) ESE 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

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

  1. 3.0 6 km SSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.3 Puerto Rico region
  3. 2.3 7 km WSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.5 14 km S of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.6 4 km W of Maricao, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.8 7 km SW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.7 3 km WSW of Fuig, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.9 5 km SW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.5 Puerto Rico region
  10. 2.2 8 km S of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.6 7 km S of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.4 2 km NNW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.9 6 km WSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.4 6 km WSW of Gu?nica, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.4 3 km SSW 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 200,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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