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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

2 km SW of Palomas, Puerto Rico

· 22 km deep · released about 8.1 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (md)
Depth
22 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Guánica Municipio, 7 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2043 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 8.1 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 1,900,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,300,000× 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 8.1 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 17.9978, -66.8845. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Guánica Municipio, PR 7 km (4 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Guánica Municipio
Guayanilla Municipio, PR 9 km (6 mi) W of here earthquakes near Guayanilla Municipio
Yauco Municipio, PR 10 km (6 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Yauco Municipio
Sabana Grande Municipio, PR 12 km (7 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Sabana Grande Municipio
Lajas Municipio, PR 17 km (10 mi) E of here earthquakes near Lajas Municipio
Peñuelas Municipio, PR 17 km (10 mi) W of here earthquakes near Peñuelas 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. 1.9 13 km W of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico
  2. 1.9 5 km WSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  3. 1.7 4 km SW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  4. 1.8 6 km SE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.7 7 km SE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  6. 1.9 8 km SSE of Indios, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.1 2 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  8. 1.6 2 km SW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.1 3 km W of Indios, Puerto Rico
  10. 1.6 6 km SSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  11. 1.8 3 km W of Indios, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.5 4 km SSE of Indios, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.4 9 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  14. 1.6 3 km SE of Palomas, Puerto Rico
  15. 1.9 5 km WSW of La Parguera, 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 15,000,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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