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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

0 km SSE of Palomas, Puerto Rico

· 11 km deep · released about 6.8 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (md)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Guayanilla Municipio, 8 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 60 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 6.8 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 2,200,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,600,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 140× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 6.8 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 18.0078, -66.8713. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Guayanilla Municipio, PR 8 km (5 mi) W of here earthquakes near Guayanilla Municipio
Guánica Municipio, PR 9 km (5 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Guánica Municipio
Yauco Municipio, PR 9 km (5 mi) S of here earthquakes near Yauco Municipio
Sabana Grande Municipio, PR 12 km (7 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Sabana Grande Municipio
Peñuelas Municipio, PR 15 km (9 mi) W of here earthquakes near Peñuelas Municipio
Lajas Municipio, PR 18 km (11 mi) E of here earthquakes near Lajas Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 1 km NNW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.0 1 km E of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.2 7 km SSW of Capitanejo, Puerto Rico
  4. 1.9 2 km ENE of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.7 3 km SW of Fuig, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.9 4 km WSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.0 4 km SSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.2 2 km SE of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico
  9. 3.1 5 km W of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.8 4 km N of San Germán, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.2 1 km SSE of Indios, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.6 2 km WSW of Fuig, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.1 7 km SE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.5 2 km NE of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.1 7 km WSW of Fuig, 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 18,000,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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