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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

9 km SSE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico

· 11 km deep · released about 8.7 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (md)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lajas Municipio, 9 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1620 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 8.7 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 8.7 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 17.9008, -67.0062. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lajas Municipio, PR 9 km (6 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Lajas Municipio
Guánica Municipio, PR 10 km (6 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Guánica Municipio
Sabana Grande Municipio, PR 21 km (13 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Sabana Grande Municipio
Cabo Rojo Municipio, PR 21 km (13 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Cabo Rojo Municipio
San Germán Municipio, PR 23 km (14 mi) S of here earthquakes near San Germán Municipio
Guayanilla Municipio, PR 25 km (15 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Guayanilla 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. 2.7 6 km SSW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.4 5 km SE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.0 9 km SSE of Lares, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.4 5 km WSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  5. 1.8 8 km ESE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.0 4 km SSW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.5 1 km NE of Fuig, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.5 Puerto Rico region
  9. 1.8 6 km ENE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  10. 1.9 2 km SSW of Lluveras, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.1 3 km WSW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.1 2 km ESE of Yauco, Puerto Rico
  13. 1.9 4 km E of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.8 7 km SSW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.3 7 km SE of Maria Antonia, 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 14,000,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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