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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.9md

3 km WSW of Boquerón, Puerto Rico

· 13 km deep · released about 650 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.9 (md)
Depth
13 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Cabo Rojo Municipio, 2 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 63 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 650 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 23,000× 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 1.5× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.9 about 650 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 18.0092, -67.1977. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Cabo Rojo Municipio, PR 2 km (1 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Cabo Rojo Municipio
Hormigueros Municipio, PR 16 km (10 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Hormigueros Municipio
Lajas Municipio, PR 17 km (11 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Lajas Municipio
San Germán Municipio, PR 20 km (13 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near San Germán Municipio
Sabana Grande Municipio, PR 28 km (17 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Sabana Grande Municipio
Guánica Municipio, PR 30 km (19 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Guánica Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.9 0 km SSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.3 3 km S of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.2 3 km NW of Guayanilla, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.4 3 km ENE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.8 1 km ENE of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.3 6 km SE of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico
  7. 3.2 3 km SSW of La Playa, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.7 4 km ESE of Maricao, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.0 6 km SSW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.4 9 km SE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.4 6 km E of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.2 3 km S of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  13. 1.6 2 km SSW of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.5 4 km SSW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.1 1 km E of Magas Arriba, 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 180,000 times the energy of this one.

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

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