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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.9md

2 km NE of San Germán, Puerto Rico

· 24 km deep · released about 19 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.9 (md)
Depth
24 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
San Germán Municipio, 2 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1244 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 19 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 810,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 580,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 51× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 19 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 18.0925, -67.0285. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
San Germán Municipio, PR 2 km (1 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near San Germán Municipio
Sabana Grande Municipio, PR 9 km (5 mi) W of here earthquakes near Sabana Grande Municipio
Hormigueros Municipio, PR 10 km (6 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Hormigueros Municipio
Lajas Municipio, PR 13 km (8 mi) N of here earthquakes near Lajas Municipio
Maricao Municipio, PR 13 km (8 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Maricao Municipio
Las Marías Municipio, PR 16 km (10 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Las Marías Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 1 km S of Yauco, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.8 4 km NE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.7 7 km SE of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.7 6 km WSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.4 Puerto Rico region
  6. 2.5 0 km W of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.5 5 km SE of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.8 8 km SE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.4 1 km WSW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.4 3 km SSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.2 6 km SW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  12. 1.9 7 km SW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.1 8 km SSE of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.5 9 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  15. 3.0 2 km NNW of Tallaboa, 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 6,500,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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