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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.0md

36 km W of Rincón, Puerto Rico

· 81 km deep · released about 1,100 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 3.0 (md)
Depth
81 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Rincón Municipio, 36 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3166 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 1,100 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 6.7 320,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 14,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 10,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 1,100 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 18.3706, -67.5931. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Rincón Municipio, PR 36 km (23 mi) W of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 43 km (27 mi) W of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Mayagüez Municipio, PR 44 km (28 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Mayagüez Municipio
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 49 km (30 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio
Añasco Municipio, PR 50 km (31 mi) W of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio
Moca Municipio, PR 54 km (34 mi) W of here earthquakes near Moca Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.8 37 km W of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.6 49 km ESE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  3. 2.4 12 km WSW of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.6 25 km W of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.9 57 km W of Stella, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.3 45 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.4 16 km SSW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.2 28 km W of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  9. 3.0 24 km W of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.9 33 km NW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.4 27 km W of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.2 19 km WNW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  13. 3.1 59 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.9 26 km NW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  15. 3.0 66 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

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 4.4 on 2017-10-01 — it released about 110 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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