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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.9md

93 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico

· 45 km deep · released about 21 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.9 (md)
Depth
45 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Fajardo Municipio, 91 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3375 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 21 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 710,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 500,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 45× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 21 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 19.1495, -65.2716. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Fajardo Municipio, PR 91 km (57 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Fajardo Municipio
Culebra Municipio, PR 92 km (57 mi) N of here earthquakes near Culebra Municipio
Luquillo Municipio, PR 98 km (61 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Luquillo Municipio
Río Grande Municipio, PR 102 km (64 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Río Grande Municipio
Loíza Municipio, PR 105 km (66 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Loíza Municipio
Ceiba Municipio, PR 106 km (66 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Ceiba Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 68 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  2. 2.7 71 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  3. 1.9 64 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  4. 1.8 79 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  5. 2.8 87 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  6. 2.5 98 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  7. 2.8 131 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  8. 3.4 80 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.4 93 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  10. 2.6 127 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.9 59 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  12. 3.1 84 km NNE of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.9 74 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  14. 1.5 64 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  15. 2.3 74 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands

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 4.3 on 2016-09-04 — it released about 4,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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