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M 1.8md

7 km S of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico

· 12 km deep · released about 16 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.8 (md)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Peñuelas Municipio, 11 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2920 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 16 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 930,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 660,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 59× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 16 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 17.9313, -66.7250. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Peñuelas Municipio, PR 11 km (7 mi) S of here earthquakes near Peñuelas Municipio
Guayanilla Municipio, PR 11 km (7 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Guayanilla Municipio
Ponce Municipio, PR 15 km (9 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Ponce Municipio
Guánica Municipio, PR 21 km (13 mi) E of here earthquakes near Guánica Municipio
Yauco Municipio, PR 22 km (14 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Yauco Municipio
Juana Díaz Municipio, PR 26 km (16 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Juana Díaz Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 8 km SW of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.0 10 km E of Maricao, Puerto Rico
  3. 1.9 8 km SE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  4. 1.8 1 km SSW of Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico
  5. 1.9 5 km NW of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico
  6. 1.6 2 km SSW of Palmarejo, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.0 0 km ESE of Palmarejo, Puerto Rico
  8. 1.7 2 km S of Maricao, Puerto Rico
  9. 1.6 3 km SSW of Maricao, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.5 3 km WSW of Maricao, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.1 19 km S of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.0 5 km S of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico
  13. 1.9 13 km SSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.1 10 km S of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.4 1 km SSW of Boquerón, 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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