QuakeIndex

Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5md

12 km NW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico

· 31 km deep · released about 5.7 lb of TNT

Felt it? Tell USGS Check my area
10 km30 km60 km120 km N Hormigueros Municipio 16 kmCabo Rojo Municipio 20 kmRincón Municipio 20 kmAñasco Municipio 21 kmSan Germán Municipio 25 kmAguada Municipio 26 kmLajas Municipio 31 kmMoca Municipio 32 kmLas Marías Municipio 32 km
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 1.5 (md)
Depth
31 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Hormigueros Municipio, 16 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2744 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 18.1556, -67.2690. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Hormigueros Municipio, PR 16 km (10 mi) W of here earthquakes near Hormigueros Municipio
Cabo Rojo Municipio, PR 20 km (12 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Cabo Rojo Municipio
Rincón Municipio, PR 20 km (13 mi) S of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Añasco Municipio, PR 21 km (13 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio
San Germán Municipio, PR 25 km (16 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near San Germán Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 26 km (16 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Aguada 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. 1.9 1 km W of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.6 26 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.3 12 km SW of La Playa, Puerto Rico
  4. 1.8 15 km WSW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.4 19 km W of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.8 20 km WNW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.0 3 km S of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  8. 1.7 11 km NE of Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.0 4 km SSE of Espino, Puerto Rico
  10. 1.5 3 km NNE of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.3 18 km S of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  12. 1.9 4 km NNW of Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico
  13. 1.8 9 km WNW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  14. 1.9 20 km NW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  15. 1.6 3 km SSE of Mayagüez, 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

QuakeIndex does not issue warnings. For earthquake early warning see ShakeAlert.