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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7md

50 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico

· 8.0 km deep · released about 12 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (md)
Depth
8.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Dorado Municipio, 50 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2802 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 12 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 870,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 78× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 12 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 18.9163, -66.1901. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Dorado Municipio, PR 50 km (31 mi) N of here earthquakes near Dorado Municipio
Toa Baja Municipio, PR 51 km (32 mi) N of here earthquakes near Toa Baja Municipio
Cataño Municipio, PR 53 km (33 mi) N of here earthquakes near Cataño Municipio
Vega Alta Municipio, PR 56 km (35 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Vega Alta Municipio
Vega Baja Municipio, PR 56 km (35 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Vega Baja Municipio
San Juan Municipio, PR 56 km (35 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near San Juan Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.8 66 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.7 61 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.1 86 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.9 81 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico
  5. 3.2 77 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.8 82 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.6 59 km NNE of Arecibo, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.0 67 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.0 83 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.8 79 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.4 69 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.8 84 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.3 82 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.6 55 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.5 76 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, 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 4.8 on 2017-08-18 — 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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