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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

2 km SSE of Salinas, Puerto Rico

· 7.3 km deep · released about 9 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (md)
Depth
7.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Salinas Municipio, 3 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1699 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 17.9573, -66.2885. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Salinas Municipio, PR 3 km (2 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Salinas Municipio
Santa Isabel Municipio, PR 10 km (7 mi) E of here earthquakes near Santa Isabel Municipio
Guayama Municipio, PR 16 km (10 mi) W of here earthquakes near Guayama Municipio
Coamo Municipio, PR 18 km (11 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Coamo Municipio
Aibonito Municipio, PR 19 km (12 mi) S of here earthquakes near Aibonito Municipio
Cayey Municipio, PR 22 km (14 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Cayey Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 1 km ESE of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico
  2. 1.8 0 km N of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.2 0 km NNE of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.4 2 km ESE of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.4 2 km ESE of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.0 3 km SSE of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico
  7. 1.9 3 km ESE of Tallaboa Alta, Puerto Rico
  8. 1.8 4 km W of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.3 6 km NW of Palomas, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.2 2 km E of G. L. Garcia, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.1 4 km E of Tallaboa Alta, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.1 9 km SSW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.6 2 km WNW of Río Cañas Abajo, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.1 11 km SSW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.4 23 km S of Arroyo, 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 5.6 on 2020-01-07 — it released about 840,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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