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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

9 km S of Emajagua, Puerto Rico

· 12 km deep · released about 7.3 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (md)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Maunabo Municipio, 10 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2940 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 7.3 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 2,100,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,500,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.3 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 17.9121, -65.8891. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Maunabo Municipio, PR 10 km (6 mi) S of here earthquakes near Maunabo Municipio
Patillas Municipio, PR 14 km (9 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Patillas Municipio
Yabucoa Municipio, PR 17 km (10 mi) S of here earthquakes near Yabucoa Municipio
Arroyo Municipio, PR 17 km (11 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Arroyo Municipio
Humacao Municipio, PR 27 km (17 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Humacao Municipio
Guayama Municipio, PR 27 km (17 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Guayama 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. 1.9 21 km SSW of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  2. 1.7 8 km S of Emajagua, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.5 9 km SSW of Arroyo, Puerto Rico
  4. 1.7 5 km E of Comerío, Puerto Rico
  5. 1.7 Puerto Rico region
  6. 2.0 5 km S of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.5 4 km SW of Patillas, Puerto Rico
  8. 1.8 18 km ESE of El Negro, Puerto Rico
  9. 1.9 11 km S of Emajagua, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.0 7 km SE of Arroyo, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.1 4 km ESE of Palmarejo, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.1 1 km SSE of G. L. Garcia, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.5 11 km S of Emajagua, Puerto Rico
  14. 1.9 2 km S of Las Ochenta, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.4 5 km SSW of Central Aguirre, 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 33,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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