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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.9md

3 km NNE of Las Marías, Puerto Rico

· 25 km deep · released about 19 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.9 (md)
Depth
25 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Las Marías Municipio, 6 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2780 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 19 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 790,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 560,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 50× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 19 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 18.2796, -66.9795. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Las Marías Municipio, PR 6 km (4 mi) N of here earthquakes near Las Marías Municipio
San Sebastián Municipio, PR 6 km (4 mi) S of here earthquakes near San Sebastián Municipio
Lares Municipio, PR 12 km (7 mi) W of here earthquakes near Lares Municipio
Maricao Municipio, PR 13 km (8 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Maricao Municipio
Moca Municipio, PR 15 km (9 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Moca Municipio
Añasco Municipio, PR 16 km (10 mi) E of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 6 km N of San Sebastián, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.2 9 km SW of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  3. 1.9 5 km W of Hormigueros, Puerto Rico
  4. 1.8 6 km E of Maricao, Puerto Rico
  5. 1.6 0 km SW of Boquerón, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.3 5 km WSW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  7. 1.9 2 km N of Monte Grande, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.4 3 km SE of Hormigueros, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.0 20 km W of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  10. 1.6 1 km SW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.2 2 km W of Las Marías, Puerto Rico
  12. 1.8 2 km SW of Las Marías, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.2 1 km NNW of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
  14. 1.7 2 km SSW of Tallaboa Alta, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.1 3 km S of Las Marías, 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 4,400 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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