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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

2 km SSE of Lamboglia, Puerto Rico

· 17 km deep · released about 9 lb of TNT

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Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (md)
Depth
17 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Patillas Municipio, 5 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 570 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 17.9585, -65.9712. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Patillas Municipio, PR 5 km (3 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Patillas Municipio
Arroyo Municipio, PR 8 km (5 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Arroyo Municipio
Maunabo Municipio, PR 9 km (6 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Maunabo Municipio
Yabucoa Municipio, PR 16 km (10 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Yabucoa Municipio
Guayama Municipio, PR 18 km (11 mi) E of here earthquakes near Guayama Municipio
San Lorenzo Municipio, PR 21 km (13 mi) S of here earthquakes near San Lorenzo Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.2 9 km S of Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.6 6 km WSW of Guaynabo, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.0 3 km N of Palomas, Puerto Rico
  4. 3.1 42 km SE of Emajagua, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.6 25 km S of Jobos, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.5 41 km SSE of Arroyo, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.0 2 km SSW of Las Ochenta, Puerto Rico
  8. 3.6 1 km ESE of Carolina, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.0 0 km ENE of Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.2 1 km ESE of Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.1 1 km ENE of Jauca, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.3 2 km ENE of Jauca, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.6 1 km WNW of Parcelas Peñuelas, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.5 1 km WSW of Parcelas Peñuelas, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.5 1 km WSW of Parcelas Peñuelas, 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 4.6 on 2016-12-05 — it released about 27,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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