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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.8md

20 km SW of Esperanza, Puerto Rico

· 13 km deep · released about 14 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.8 (md)
Depth
13 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Humacao Municipio, 23 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2711 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 14 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,100,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 790,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 70× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 14 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 17.9888, -65.6263. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Humacao Municipio, PR 23 km (15 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Humacao Municipio
Vieques Municipio, PR 26 km (16 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Vieques Municipio
Yabucoa Municipio, PR 26 km (16 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Yabucoa Municipio
Naguabo Municipio, PR 27 km (17 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Naguabo Municipio
Maunabo Municipio, PR 29 km (18 mi) E of here earthquakes near Maunabo Municipio
Ceiba Municipio, PR 29 km (18 mi) S of here earthquakes near Ceiba Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 6 km SSW of Arroyo, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.2 16 km S of Lamboglia, Puerto Rico
  3. 1.9 17 km S of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.6 11 km SE of Isabel Segunda, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.7 31 km SE of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  6. 1.9 16 km SSW of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.7 18 km SSE of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  8. 1.7 18 km SSE of Punta Santiago, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.5 26 km SE of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.9 10 km SSE of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.4 18 km S of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.0 21 km S of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  13. 1.5 5 km SSW of Emajagua, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.7 3 km E of Ceiba, Puerto Rico
  15. 1.7 24 km SE of Emajagua, 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 4.6 on 2016-12-05 — it released about 18,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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