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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5md

2 km NNW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico

· 20 km deep · released about 5.7 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (md)
Depth
20 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Hormigueros Municipio, 10 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2868 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 5.7 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,600,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,900,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 170× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.7 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 18.0951, -67.1981. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Hormigueros Municipio, PR 10 km (6 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Hormigueros Municipio
Cabo Rojo Municipio, PR 11 km (7 mi) N of here earthquakes near Cabo Rojo Municipio
San Germán Municipio, PR 17 km (11 mi) W of here earthquakes near San Germán Municipio
Lajas Municipio, PR 21 km (13 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Lajas Municipio
Añasco Municipio, PR 22 km (14 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio
Sabana Grande Municipio, PR 27 km (16 mi) W of here earthquakes near Sabana Grande Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.6 7 km S of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.5 7 km S of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  3. 1.9 3 km ESE of Espino, Puerto Rico
  4. 1.8 5 km S of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico
  5. 1.6 12 km SSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  6. 1.8 7 km NE of Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.2 21 km S of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.5 13 km WNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  9. 1.8 8 km NE of Maricao, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.1 6 km ENE of Espino, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.3 16 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  12. 1.6 3 km SSE of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.5 2 km NW of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
  14. 1.9 4 km WSW of Maricao, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.0 7 km WSW of Maricao, 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 15,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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