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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5md

6 km WSW of Las Marías, Puerto Rico

· 27 km deep · released about 5.9 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (md)
Depth
27 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Las Marías Municipio, 8 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2738 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 5.9 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 2,500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,800,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 160× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.9 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 18.2371, -67.0483. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Las Marías Municipio, PR 8 km (5 mi) W of here earthquakes near Las Marías Municipio
Añasco Municipio, PR 10 km (6 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio
San Sebastián Municipio, PR 13 km (8 mi) SW of here earthquakes near San Sebastián Municipio
Hormigueros Municipio, PR 13 km (8 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Hormigueros Municipio
Maricao Municipio, PR 14 km (9 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Maricao Municipio
San Germán Municipio, PR 14 km (9 mi) N of here earthquakes near San Germán 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. 1.6 4 km SW of Maricao, Puerto Rico
  2. 1.8 2 km WNW of Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico
  3. 1.5 1 km NNW of Animas, Puerto Rico
  4. 1.5 1 km WSW of Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.2 18 km W of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.0 16 km WNW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.1 6 km NNE of Sabana Eneas, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.0 8 km SW of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.1 3 km NE of Liborio Negron Torres, Puerto Rico
  10. 1.9 1 km W of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.6 26 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.3 12 km SW of La Playa, Puerto Rico
  13. 1.8 15 km WSW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.4 19 km W of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.2 18 km NNE of Isabela, 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 14,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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