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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

3 km SSE of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico

· 22 km deep · released about 8.7 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (md)
Depth
22 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Hormigueros Municipio, 5 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2732 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 8.7 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 110× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 8.7 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 18.1745, -67.1251. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Hormigueros Municipio, PR 5 km (3 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Hormigueros Municipio
San Germán Municipio, PR 12 km (7 mi) NW of here earthquakes near San Germán Municipio
Añasco Municipio, PR 13 km (8 mi) S of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio
Las Marías Municipio, PR 17 km (10 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Las Marías Municipio
Maricao Municipio, PR 20 km (12 mi) W of here earthquakes near Maricao Municipio
Cabo Rojo Municipio, PR 21 km (13 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Cabo Rojo Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 10 km WNW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  2. 1.9 11 km W of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  3. 1.9 11 km E of Maricao, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.6 25 km NW of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico
  5. 1.6 3 km SSE of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.4 27 km SW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  7. 1.6 3 km WNW of Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico
  8. 1.9 10 km WSW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  9. 1.8 5 km SSE of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico
  10. 1.8 5 km S of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico
  11. 1.7 9 km NNW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.5 8 km NW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.1 8 km NW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.6 8 km NW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.0 Mona Passage

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 9,800 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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