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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.0md

73 km SW of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico

· 53 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
53 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mayagüez Municipio, 61 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2918 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 17.5611, -67.7255. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mayagüez Municipio, PR 61 km (38 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Mayagüez Municipio
Cabo Rojo Municipio, PR 75 km (47 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Cabo Rojo Municipio
Lajas Municipio, PR 86 km (54 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Lajas Municipio
Hormigueros Municipio, PR 91 km (56 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Hormigueros Municipio
San Germán Municipio, PR 95 km (59 mi) SW of here earthquakes near San Germán Municipio
Guánica Municipio, PR 95 km (59 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Guánica Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 24 km WSW of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico
  2. 1.9 41 km WSW of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.9 50 km SSW of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.5 45 km SSW of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.8 73 km SW of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico
  6. 3.1 Puerto Rico region
  7. 2.7 55 km W of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.5 48 km W of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.8 69 km W of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.5 71 km SW of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.7 47 km WSW of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.8 33 km W of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico
  13. 3.1 89 km WSW of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.6 46 km W of Pole Ojea, 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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