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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5md

3 km NNE of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico

· 36 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (md)
Depth
36 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Añasco Municipio, 7 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2730 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 5.4 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 2,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 180× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.4 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 18.2260, -67.1243. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Añasco Municipio, PR 7 km (4 mi) S of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio
Hormigueros Municipio, PR 10 km (6 mi) N of here earthquakes near Hormigueros Municipio
Las Marías Municipio, PR 15 km (10 mi) W of here earthquakes near Las Marías Municipio
San Germán Municipio, PR 16 km (10 mi) NW of here earthquakes near San Germán Municipio
Moca Municipio, PR 18 km (11 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Moca Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 18 km (11 mi) SSE 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. 1.8 6 km W of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico
  2. 1.9 4 km W of Cayuco, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.1 3 km NE of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.1 7 km W of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  5. 1.6 10 km WNW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  6. 1.9 11 km W of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  7. 1.9 11 km E of Maricao, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.6 25 km NW of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico
  9. 1.6 3 km SSE of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.4 27 km SW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  11. 1.6 3 km WNW of Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico
  12. 1.9 10 km WSW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  13. 1.8 5 km SSE of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico
  14. 1.8 5 km S of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico
  15. 1.7 9 km NNW of Puerto Real, 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 16,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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