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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.8md

4 km SE of G. L. Garcia, Puerto Rico

· 28 km deep · released about 14 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.8 (md)
Depth
28 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Cayey Municipio, 9 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3425 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 14 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,100,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 760,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 68× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 14 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 18.1043, -66.0696. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Cayey Municipio, PR 9 km (5 mi) E of here earthquakes near Cayey Municipio
San Lorenzo Municipio, PR 11 km (7 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near San Lorenzo Municipio
Caguas Municipio, PR 12 km (7 mi) S of here earthquakes near Caguas Municipio
Cidra Municipio, PR 12 km (8 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Cidra Municipio
Patillas Municipio, PR 15 km (9 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Patillas Municipio
Arroyo Municipio, PR 15 km (9 mi) N of here earthquakes near Arroyo Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.7 2 km WSW of Río Lajas, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.5 3 km ESE of Jauca, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.2 25 km SE of El Negro, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.3 12 km ESE of El Negro, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.8 4 km WNW of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.3 21 km SSE of Arroyo, Puerto Rico
  7. 3.4 2 km NNE of Barahona, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.5 2 km WNW of Parcelas Nuevas, Puerto Rico
  9. 1.9 6 km SSE of Punta Santiago, Puerto Rico
  10. 1.7 19 km ESE of El Negro, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.1 25 km SE of El Negro, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.4 25 km SE of El Negro, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.4 3 km SW of Río Lajas, Puerto Rico
  14. 3.0 4 km ENE of Guaynabo, Puerto Rico
  15. 1.9 26 km SE of El Negro, 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 4.6 on 2016-12-05 — it released about 17,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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