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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5md

5 km SSW of Emajagua, Puerto Rico

· 10 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Maunabo Municipio 6 kmPatillas Municipio 11 kmYabucoa Municipio 13 kmArroyo Municipio 15 kmSan Lorenzo Municipio 23 kmHumacao Municipio 24 kmGuayama Municipio 25 kmLas Piedras Municipio 27 kmJuncos Municipio 31 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (md)
Depth
10 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Maunabo Municipio, 6 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2646 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 17.9493, -65.9001. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Maunabo Municipio, PR 6 km (3 mi) S of here earthquakes near Maunabo Municipio
Patillas Municipio, PR 11 km (7 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Patillas Municipio
Yabucoa Municipio, PR 13 km (8 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Yabucoa Municipio
Arroyo Municipio, PR 15 km (9 mi) E of here earthquakes near Arroyo Municipio
San Lorenzo Municipio, PR 23 km (15 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near San Lorenzo Municipio
Humacao Municipio, PR 24 km (15 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Humacao Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.7 31 km SSW of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.0 22 km ESE of El Negro, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.2 9 km SSE of Daguao, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.3 2 km W of Bayamon, Puerto Rico
  5. 1.5 7 km SSE of Jauca, Puerto Rico
  6. 1.7 10 km S of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.1 43 km SE of Emajagua, Puerto Rico
  8. 1.5 8 km S of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.4 21 km S of Lamboglia, Puerto Rico
  10. 1.5 11 km SSW of Emajagua, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.7 10 km S of Emajagua, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.0 6 km S of Caguas, Puerto Rico
  13. 1.8 2 km WNW of Humacao, Puerto Rico
  14. 1.9 7 km SSW of Arroyo, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.0 21 km ESE of El Negro, 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 45,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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