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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5md

1 km NNE of Jobos, Puerto Rico

· 16 km deep · released about 5.7 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (md)
Depth
16 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Guayama Municipio, 3 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2651 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 5.7 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 2,600,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,900,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 170× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.7 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 17.9635, -66.1615. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Guayama Municipio, PR 3 km (2 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Guayama Municipio
Salinas Municipio, PR 11 km (7 mi) E of here earthquakes near Salinas Municipio
Arroyo Municipio, PR 13 km (8 mi) W of here earthquakes near Arroyo Municipio
Cayey Municipio, PR 16 km (10 mi) S of here earthquakes near Cayey Municipio
Patillas Municipio, PR 19 km (12 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Patillas Municipio
Aibonito Municipio, PR 22 km (13 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Aibonito 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. 1.9 Puerto Rico region
  2. 2.2 12 km SSE of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  3. 1.8 9 km ENE of Jayuya, Puerto Rico
  4. 1.6 13 km SSE of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.0 9 km SW of Potala Pastillo, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.0 9 km S of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  7. 1.7 1 km WNW of Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.0 10 km S of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.0 3 km WNW of Corozal, Puerto Rico
  10. 1.8 18 km SSW of Central Aguirre, Puerto Rico
  11. 1.7 11 km S of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.2 6 km S of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  13. 1.7 2 km S of Las Ochenta, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.8 12 km S of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.4 11 km S of Salinas, 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 42,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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