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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5md

5 km N of Yaurel, Puerto Rico

· 5.0 km deep · released about 5.6 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (md)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Cayey Municipio, 11 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2467 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 5.6 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 2,700,000× 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 5.6 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 18.0763, -66.0546. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Cayey Municipio, PR 11 km (7 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Cayey Municipio
Patillas Municipio, PR 11 km (7 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Patillas Municipio
San Lorenzo Municipio, PR 11 km (7 mi) SW of here earthquakes near San Lorenzo Municipio
Arroyo Municipio, PR 12 km (7 mi) N of here earthquakes near Arroyo Municipio
Guayama Municipio, PR 14 km (9 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Guayama Municipio
Caguas Municipio, PR 15 km (9 mi) S of here earthquakes near Caguas Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.9 1 km S of Los Llanos, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.1 4 km N of Yaurel, Puerto Rico
  3. 1.7 9 km SE of Emajagua, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.1 3 km WSW of Playita Cortada, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.2 6 km N of Yaurel, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.0 1 km SW of Las Ochenta, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.6 4 km SE of Jauca, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.3 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 43,000 times the energy of this one.

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

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