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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.7md

4 km N of La Parguera, Puerto Rico

· 14 km deep · released about 360 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.7 (md)
Depth
14 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lajas Municipio, 4 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 759 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 360 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 42,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 30,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2.6× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.7 about 360 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 18.0112, -67.0457. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lajas Municipio, PR 4 km (2 mi) N of here earthquakes near Lajas Municipio
San Germán Municipio, PR 11 km (7 mi) S of here earthquakes near San Germán Municipio
Sabana Grande Municipio, PR 13 km (8 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Sabana Grande Municipio
Cabo Rojo Municipio, PR 14 km (9 mi) E of here earthquakes near Cabo Rojo Municipio
Guánica Municipio, PR 15 km (9 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Guánica Municipio
Hormigueros Municipio, PR 16 km (10 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Hormigueros Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 4 km E of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.9 1 km S of Indios, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.1 1 km NE of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.9 5 km E of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.3 3 km ESE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.4 6 km SW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.7 23 km WNW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.7 9 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.0 4 km SE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.9 2 km SSW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.5 2 km NNW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.3 6 km ESE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.5 19 km SSE of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.7 0 km SSE of Palomas, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.6 11 km N of Yauco, 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 330,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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