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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

36 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico

· 12 km deep · released about 8.1 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (md)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Aguadilla Municipio, 37 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3052 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 8.1 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,900,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,300,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 120× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 8.1 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 18.8156, -67.1605. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 37 km (23 mi) N of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio
Isabela Municipio, PR 40 km (25 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Isabela Municipio
Quebradillas Municipio, PR 46 km (29 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Quebradillas Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 49 km (30 mi) N of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Moca Municipio, PR 49 km (31 mi) N of here earthquakes near Moca Municipio
Camuy Municipio, PR 52 km (32 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Camuy Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 39 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  2. 3.0 63 km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.1 8 km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.7 43 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.8 59 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.7 32 km NW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.1 16 km N of Quebradillas, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.6 60 km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.8 56 km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.6 62 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.6 Mona Passage
  12. 2.8 23 km N of Camuy, Puerto Rico
  13. 3.0 53 km NW of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.1 12 km NNW of Camuy, Puerto Rico
  15. 3.1 37 km NNW of San Antonio, 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 4.3 on 2017-10-14 — 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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