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M 3.1Md

1 km WSW of Sabana, Puerto Rico

· 114 km deep · released about 1,300 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.1 (Md)
Depth
114 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Vega Baja Municipio, 3 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3482 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 1,300 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 250,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 11,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 7,900× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.1 about 1,300 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.4× more

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 18.4568, -66.3728. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Vega Baja Municipio, PR 3 km (2 mi) E of here earthquakes near Vega Baja Municipio
Vega Alta Municipio, PR 4 km (3 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Vega Alta Municipio
Dorado Municipio, PR 12 km (7 mi) W of here earthquakes near Dorado Municipio
Manatí Municipio, PR 13 km (8 mi) E of here earthquakes near Manatí Municipio
Morovis Municipio, PR 16 km (10 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Morovis Municipio
Toa Alta Municipio, PR 17 km (11 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Toa Alta Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.0 15 km NNE of Carrizales, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.6 12 km N of Garrochales, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.9 32 km NNW of Brenas, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.6 14 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.3 4 km WNW of Villalba, Puerto Rico
  6. 1.8 3 km S of Cayey, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.9 35 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.0 3 km NW of Villalba, Puerto Rico
  9. 1.9 7 km WSW of Orocovis, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.5 10 km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.6 1 km NW of Bayamón, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.2 0 km W of Luis Llorens Torres, Puerto Rico
  13. 3.0 6 km NNE of Levittown, Puerto Rico
  14. 3.4 47 km N of Dorado, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.3 10 km NNE of Carrizales, 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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