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M 1.7md

3 km ESE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico

· 17 km deep · released about 12 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (md)
Depth
17 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Guánica Municipio, 7 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2031 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 12 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,300,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 900,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 80× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 12 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 17.9641, -66.8566. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Guánica Municipio, PR 7 km (4 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Guánica Municipio
Guayanilla Municipio, PR 8 km (5 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Guayanilla Municipio
Yauco Municipio, PR 14 km (8 mi) S of here earthquakes near Yauco Municipio
Peñuelas Municipio, PR 15 km (9 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Peñuelas Municipio
Sabana Grande Municipio, PR 16 km (10 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Sabana Grande Municipio
Lajas Municipio, PR 19 km (12 mi) E of here earthquakes near Lajas 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. 2.1 8 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  2. 1.9 3 km WSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.0 1 km S of Yauco, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.0 6 km ESE of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico
  5. 1.8 7 km ESE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  6. 1.7 5 km SW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.8 9 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.6 3 km SSW of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico
  9. 1.9 5 km WNW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  10. 1.6 6 km SSE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  11. 1.9 3 km WSW of Fuig, Puerto Rico
  12. 1.5 7 km ESE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.2 11 km SW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  14. 1.7 4 km SW of Fuig, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.1 1 km W 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 10,000,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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