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M 1.9md

5 km ESE of Las Marías, Puerto Rico

· 8.0 km deep · released about 19 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.9 (md)
Depth
8.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Las Marías Municipio, 4 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3094 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 19 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 5.8 810,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 580,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 51× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 19 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 18.2398, -66.9385. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Las Marías Municipio, PR 4 km (3 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Las Marías Municipio
Maricao Municipio, PR 7 km (5 mi) N of here earthquakes near Maricao Municipio
Lares Municipio, PR 8 km (5 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Lares Municipio
San Sebastián Municipio, PR 11 km (7 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near San Sebastián Municipio
Sabana Grande Municipio, PR 17 km (11 mi) N of here earthquakes near Sabana Grande Municipio
San Germán Municipio, PR 18 km (11 mi) NE of here earthquakes near San Germán Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.4 5 km SE of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.1 5 km SE of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  3. 1.9 4 km ESE of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  4. 1.9 4 km SW of Coto Laurel, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.0 2 km SE of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.3 4 km SE of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.1 6 km SSW of La Playa, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.2 6 km SSW of La Playa, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.8 16 km NNE of Carrizales, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.0 2 km NE of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.0 11 km NW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  12. 1.8 6 km WSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  13. 1.6 0 km SE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.3 4 km SW of Maricao, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.4 20 km N of Hatillo, 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.

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