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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.9md

3 km SE of Salinas, Puerto Rico

· 15 km deep · released about 21 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.9 (md)
Depth
15 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Salinas Municipio, 2 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 946 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 21 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 5.8 730,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 520,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 46× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 21 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 17.9578, -66.2775. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Salinas Municipio, PR 2 km (1 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Salinas Municipio
Santa Isabel Municipio, PR 12 km (7 mi) E of here earthquakes near Santa Isabel Municipio
Guayama Municipio, PR 15 km (9 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 21 km (13 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

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

  1. 2.7 1 km W of G. L. Garcia, Puerto Rico
  2. 3.6 1 km NW of Palmarejo, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.1 4 km ENE of Orocovis, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.2 4 km S of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.8 3 km NW of Orocovis, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.1 5 km WSW of Central Aguirre, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.1 5 km SSE of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.3 6 km SSE of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  9. 1.9 6 km SW of Central Aguirre, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.5 7 km S of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.1 2 km WSW of Aibonito, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.4 6 km SSE of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.1 1 km WNW of Mariano Colón, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.9 17 km S of Central Aguirre, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.9 4 km E of Jayuya, 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 370,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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