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M 1.6md

10 km NW of Coto Laurel, Puerto Rico

· 21 km deep · released about 7.1 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (md)
Depth
21 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Jayuya Municipio, 11 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2536 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 7.1 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 2,100,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,500,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.1 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 18.1196, -66.6155. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Jayuya Municipio, PR 11 km (7 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Jayuya Municipio
Ponce Municipio, PR 13 km (8 mi) N of here earthquakes near Ponce Municipio
Villalba Municipio, PR 15 km (9 mi) W of here earthquakes near Villalba Municipio
Peñuelas Municipio, PR 16 km (10 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Peñuelas Municipio
Adjuntas Municipio, PR 17 km (10 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Adjuntas Municipio
Juana Díaz Municipio, PR 19 km (12 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Juana Díaz Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 8 km ESE of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico
  2. 1.9 2 km E of Jauca, Puerto Rico
  3. 1.9 2 km ESE of Jauca, Puerto Rico
  4. 1.6 10 km SSE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.0 7 km SW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  6. 1.7 6 km SSE of Jauca, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.1 10 km SSE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  8. 1.9 10 km SE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  9. 1.7 15 km S of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.3 4 km SE of Jauca, Puerto Rico
  11. 1.9 9 km SW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.1 4 km SSE of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.2 2 km SSE of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.5 2 km SSW of Sabana Hoyos, Puerto Rico
  15. 1.9 2 km SSW of Las Ochenta, 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.

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