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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.8md

4 km E of Pastos, Puerto Rico

· 11 km deep · released about 17 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.8 (md)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Aibonito Municipio, 5 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 417 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 17 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 870,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 620,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 55× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 17 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 18.1120, -66.2198. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Aibonito Municipio, PR 5 km (3 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Aibonito Municipio
Cayey Municipio, PR 7 km (5 mi) W of here earthquakes near Cayey Municipio
Cidra Municipio, PR 9 km (6 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Cidra Municipio
Comerío Municipio, PR 13 km (8 mi) S of here earthquakes near Comerío Municipio
Barranquitas Municipio, PR 14 km (8 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Barranquitas Municipio
Coamo Municipio, PR 15 km (9 mi) E of here earthquakes near Coamo Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 4 km SSW of Arroyo, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.9 1 km WSW of Bayamon, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.0 4 km NNW of Dorado, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.1 1 km NE of Las Ochenta, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.2 5 km NW of Orocovis, Puerto Rico
  6. 1.5 1 km SE of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.9 2 km S of Cayey, Puerto Rico
  8. 1.9 2 km SE of Cidra, Puerto Rico
  9. 1.6 6 km SSE of Lamboglia, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.8 10 km S of Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.6 10 km S of Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.8 9 km S of Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.4 13 km S of Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico
  14. 3.0 3 km SW of Vega Alta, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.4 4 km NW of Orocovis, 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 14,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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