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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.1md

1 km SW of Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico

· 47 km deep · released about 1,400 lb of TNT

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Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 3.1 (md)
Depth
47 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Trujillo Alto Municipio, 2 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3210 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,400 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 6.7 240,000× 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 7,700× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.1 about 1,400 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.5× 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 18.3455, -66.0176. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Trujillo Alto Municipio, PR 2 km (1 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Trujillo Alto Municipio
Carolina Municipio, PR 8 km (5 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Carolina Municipio
Gurabo Municipio, PR 9 km (6 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Gurabo Municipio
San Juan Municipio, PR 10 km (6 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near San Juan Municipio
Guaynabo Municipio, PR 10 km (6 mi) E of here earthquakes near Guaynabo Municipio
Loíza Municipio, PR 14 km (8 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Loíza Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.7 Puerto Rico region
  2. 2.7 27 km N of Loíza, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.0 1 km N of Ingenio, Puerto Rico
  4. 3.3 1 km SE of Sumidero, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.9 4 km SE of Cataño, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.3 2 km ESE of Humacao, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.7 4 km WNW of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.8 22 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  9. 3.1 24 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  10. 1.9 7 km WSW of Orocovis, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.7 2 km SW of Toa Baja, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.7 1 km S of G. L. Garcia, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.8 4 km NNE of Guaynabo, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.9 4 km SW of Gurabo, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.9 2 km WNW of Vega Baja, 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 170 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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