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M 5.0ml

1 km N of Indios, Puerto Rico

· 13 km deep · released about 480 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 5.0 (ml)
Depth
13 km below the surface
Felt
811 reports · strongest reported intensity VI
Measured shaking
intensity V (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
green
Nearest
Guayanilla Municipio, 2 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2360 days ago

This was a moderate earthquake. Shaking at this size can damage poorly built structures close to the epicentre. 811 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 480 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 6.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 350× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 16× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 11× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 5.0 about 480 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1,000× more

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 18.0105, -66.8188. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Guayanilla Municipio, PR 2 km (1 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Guayanilla Municipio
Yauco Municipio, PR 9 km (6 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Yauco Municipio
Peñuelas Municipio, PR 10 km (6 mi) W of here earthquakes near Peñuelas Municipio
Guánica Municipio, PR 13 km (8 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Guánica Municipio
Sabana Grande Municipio, PR 16 km (10 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Sabana Grande Municipio
Adjuntas Municipio, PR 20 km (12 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Adjuntas Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.7 4 km SSE of Indios, Puerto Rico
  2. 3.4 1 km SSW of Guayanilla, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.0 1 km SSW of Guayanilla, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.4 13 km SSE of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.5 10 km S of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  6. 3.0 12 km S of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.3 10 km SSE of Indios, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.5 5 km WSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.8 5 km SSW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  10. 3.4 8 km SE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.6 3 km SSE of Indios, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.9 6 km SSE of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  13. 3.0 4 km SSW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  14. 3.4 0 km E of Fuig, Puerto Rico
  15. 3.9 3 km SW of Indios, 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 6.4 on 2020-01-07 — it released about 130 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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