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M 3.0Md

19 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico

· 131 km deep · released about 950 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.0 (Md)
Depth
131 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Rincón Municipio, 20 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3678 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 950 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 16,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 11,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 950 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 18.2532, -67.4148. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Rincón Municipio, PR 20 km (12 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 28 km (17 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Añasco Municipio, PR 30 km (19 mi) W of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio
Hormigueros Municipio, PR 34 km (21 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Hormigueros Municipio
Cabo Rojo Municipio, PR 38 km (23 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Cabo Rojo Municipio
Moca Municipio, PR 38 km (24 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Moca Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 9 km NW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  2. 1.7 1 km WSW of San Sebastián, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.1 22 km WNW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  4. 1.9 4 km SE of Lajas, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.0 0 km SW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  6. 1.9 7 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  7. 1.8 3 km NNW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  8. 1.8 3 km SSE of Las Marías, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.3 15 km NW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  10. 3.1 6 km SSW of La Playa, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.8 31 km NW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.7 32 km NW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.0 3 km SSE of Stella, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.9 49 km NW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  15. 3.0 12 km NW of Aguada, 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.

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