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M 1.9md

2 km NW of Guayanilla, Puerto Rico

· 17 km deep · released about 19 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.9 (md)
Depth
17 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Guayanilla Municipio, 3 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 184 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 18.0330, -66.8078. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Guayanilla Municipio, PR 3 km (2 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Guayanilla Municipio
Yauco Municipio, PR 8 km (5 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Yauco Municipio
Peñuelas Municipio, PR 8 km (5 mi) W of here earthquakes near Peñuelas Municipio
Guánica Municipio, PR 15 km (10 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Guánica Municipio
Sabana Grande Municipio, PR 16 km (10 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Sabana Grande Municipio
Adjuntas Municipio, PR 17 km (11 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Adjuntas Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 3 km WSW of Fuig, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.5 8 km SW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  3. 1.9 5 km SSW of Liborio Negron Torres, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.2 2 km ESE of Palomas, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.2 3 km SW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.0 1 km E of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.0 1 km SSW of Animas, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.0 1 km WSW of Guayanilla, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.5 12 km S of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  10. 1.9 0 km SE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.0 1 km WSW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.1 17 km SSE of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.0 1 km W of Indios, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.8 5 km SE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.5 3 km ENE of Ponce, 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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