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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

12 km SW of La Playa, Puerto Rico

· 37 km deep · released about 7.8 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (md)
Depth
37 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Rincón Municipio, 14 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2630 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 7.8 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 1,900,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 120× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.8 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 18.2118, -67.2683. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Rincón Municipio, PR 14 km (9 mi) S of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Añasco Municipio, PR 17 km (10 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio
Hormigueros Municipio, PR 18 km (11 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Hormigueros Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 20 km (13 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Cabo Rojo Municipio, PR 26 km (16 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Cabo Rojo Municipio
San Germán Municipio, PR 27 km (17 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near San Germán Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 5 km WSW of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.0 7 km W of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.3 6 km WSW of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.3 11 km N of Yauco, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.1 5 km SW of Palmarejo, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.5 7 km ENE of Hormigueros, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.1 9 km WNW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.1 25 km NW of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico
  9. 1.7 9 km ENE of Maricao, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.0 5 km NW of Caban, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.0 11 km SSW of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico
  12. 1.6 Mona Passage
  13. 2.5 24 km W of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  14. 1.8 7 km SW of La Playa, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.7 50 km WSW of Stella, 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 11,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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