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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5md

1 km SE of Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico

· 11 km deep · released about 6.2 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (md)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Aguas Buenas Municipio, 4 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2833 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 6.2 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 2,500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 150× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 6.2 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 18.2440, -66.0921. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Aguas Buenas Municipio, PR 4 km (3 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Aguas Buenas Municipio
Caguas Municipio, PR 6 km (4 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Caguas Municipio
Cidra Municipio, PR 11 km (7 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Cidra Municipio
Guaynabo Municipio, PR 11 km (7 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Guaynabo Municipio
Gurabo Municipio, PR 12 km (8 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Gurabo Municipio
Comerío Municipio, PR 14 km (8 mi) E of here earthquakes near Comerío 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 4 km N of Palmarejo, Puerto Rico
  2. 1.9 1 km ENE of El Ojo, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.0 0 km SSE of Playita Cortada, Puerto Rico
  4. 1.6 5 km SE of Arroyo, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.3 4 km NW of Palomas, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.3 Puerto Rico region
  7. 2.3 6 km NE of Villalba, Puerto Rico
  8. 1.8 11 km S of Emajagua, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.5 1 km ESE of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  10. 1.9 2 km WNW of Las Ollas, Puerto Rico
  11. 1.8 8 km SSW of Ciales, Puerto Rico
  12. 1.8 9 km SSW of Emajagua, Puerto Rico
  13. 1.9 3 km ENE of Bairoa, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.2 1 km NW of Sumidero, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.7 2 km SW of H. Rivera Colon, 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 39,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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