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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.9md

15 km ESE of Emajagua, Puerto Rico

· 18 km deep · released about 23 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Maunabo Municipio 17 kmYabucoa Municipio 18 kmHumacao Municipio 24 kmPatillas Municipio 25 kmArroyo Municipio 30 kmLas Piedras Municipio 32 kmNaguabo Municipio 32 kmSan Lorenzo Municipio 34 kmJuncos Municipio 37 km
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 1.9 (md)
Depth
18 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Maunabo Municipio, 17 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3365 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 23 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 5.8 660,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 470,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 42× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 23 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 17.9235, -65.7598. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Maunabo Municipio, PR 17 km (10 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Maunabo Municipio
Yabucoa Municipio, PR 18 km (11 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Yabucoa Municipio
Humacao Municipio, PR 24 km (15 mi) S of here earthquakes near Humacao Municipio
Patillas Municipio, PR 25 km (16 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Patillas Municipio
Arroyo Municipio, PR 30 km (19 mi) E of here earthquakes near Arroyo Municipio
Las Piedras Municipio, PR 32 km (20 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Las Piedras Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 3 km NNW of Patillas, Puerto Rico
  2. 3.0 26 km SSW of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.6 2 km NNW of El Negro, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.8 1 km NNE of Yabucoa, Puerto Rico
  5. 3.2 4 km WNW of Aguas Claras, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.9 33 km SE of Emajagua, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.0 17 km SE of Emajagua, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.1 14 km SE of El Negro, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.8 21 km SSE of Arroyo, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.5 5 km ESE of G. L. Garcia, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.6 26 km SE of El Negro, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.4 22 km SSE of Arroyo, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.9 21 km S of Lamboglia, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.4 Puerto Rico region
  15. 1.8 22 km S of Jobos, 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 10,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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