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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

2 km E of Jauca, Puerto Rico

· 6.0 km deep · released about 9 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (md)
Depth
6.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Santa Isabel Municipio, 5 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2529 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 9 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 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 110× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 9 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 17.9708, -66.3400. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Santa Isabel Municipio, PR 5 km (3 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Santa Isabel Municipio
Salinas Municipio, PR 8 km (5 mi) W of here earthquakes near Salinas Municipio
Coamo Municipio, PR 15 km (9 mi) S of here earthquakes near Coamo Municipio
Juana Díaz Municipio, PR 16 km (10 mi) E of here earthquakes near Juana Díaz Municipio
Aibonito Municipio, PR 19 km (12 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Aibonito Municipio
Guayama Municipio, PR 21 km (13 mi) W of here earthquakes near Guayama Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 8 km SE of Jobos, Puerto Rico
  2. 1.8 Puerto Rico region
  3. 2.6 8 km SE of Jobos, Puerto Rico
  4. 1.6 3 km NNE of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.3 2 km SSW of Las Ochenta, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.0 12 km SSE of Arroyo, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.0 1 km WNW of Las Ochenta, Puerto Rico
  8. 1.5 1 km E of Jauca, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.0 2 km SE of Palmarejo, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.5 8 km S of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  11. 1.9 11 km SSE of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  12. 1.5 3 km S of Las Ochenta, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.3 13 km SSE of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.1 1 km SSW of Río Cañas Abajo, Puerto Rico
  15. 1.8 4 km SE of Jauca, 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 27,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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