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M 1.7md

1 km S of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico

· 21 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (md)
Depth
21 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Adjuntas Municipio, 5 km NW
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 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 18.1496, -66.7233. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Adjuntas Municipio, PR 5 km (3 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Adjuntas Municipio
Utuado Municipio, PR 14 km (8 mi) S of here earthquakes near Utuado Municipio
Peñuelas Municipio, PR 14 km (9 mi) N of here earthquakes near Peñuelas Municipio
Yauco Municipio, PR 16 km (10 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Yauco Municipio
Jayuya Municipio, PR 16 km (10 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Jayuya Municipio
Guayanilla Municipio, PR 18 km (11 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Guayanilla 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. 1.5 1 km NNW of Animas, Puerto Rico
  2. 1.9 2 km N of Animas, Puerto Rico
  3. 1.5 1 km WSW of Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.0 15 km S of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.1 6 km NNE of Sabana Eneas, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.4 9 km N of Villalba, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.1 3 km NE of Liborio Negron Torres, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.0 3 km S of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  9. 1.9 6 km NNW of Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico
  10. 1.7 11 km NE of Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.0 4 km SSE of Espino, Puerto Rico
  12. 1.5 3 km NNE of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
  13. 1.9 4 km NNW of Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico
  14. 1.8 18 km SSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  15. 1.6 1 km NW of Coto Laurel, 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.

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