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M 1.7md

1 km SSW of Jobos, Puerto Rico

· 16 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (md)
Depth
16 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Guayama Municipio, 5 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2754 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 11 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 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 970,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 86× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 17.9405, -66.1695. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Guayama Municipio, PR 5 km (3 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Guayama Municipio
Salinas Municipio, PR 10 km (6 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Salinas Municipio
Arroyo Municipio, PR 14 km (9 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Arroyo Municipio
Cayey Municipio, PR 18 km (11 mi) S of here earthquakes near Cayey Municipio
Patillas Municipio, PR 20 km (13 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Patillas Municipio
Santa Isabel Municipio, PR 23 km (14 mi) E of here earthquakes near Santa Isabel Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 6 km ESE of Jayuya, Puerto Rico
  2. 1.5 4 km SSW of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  3. 1.8 2 km SE of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.3 Puerto Rico region
  5. 2.0 15 km S of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.4 9 km N of Villalba, Puerto Rico
  7. 1.8 1 km SE of Jobos, Puerto Rico
  8. 1.6 0 km ENE of Jobos, Puerto Rico
  9. 1.5 1 km N of Jobos, Puerto Rico
  10. 1.6 1 km NW of Coto Laurel, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.0 2 km WSW of Palomas, Puerto Rico
  12. 1.9 4 km N of Jobos, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.4 33 km SSE of Arroyo, Puerto Rico
  14. 1.7 7 km SSE of Palo Seco, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.5 4 km ENE of Guaynabo, 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 22,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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