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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.1md

108 km NNE of San Juan, Puerto Rico

· 26 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
26 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Loíza Municipio, 109 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2360 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 1,400 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 6.7 230,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 10,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 7,400× 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 19.4228, -65.8715. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Loíza Municipio, PR 109 km (68 mi) N of here earthquakes near Loíza Municipio
Toa Baja Municipio, PR 113 km (70 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Toa Baja Municipio
Cataño Municipio, PR 113 km (70 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Cataño Municipio
Dorado Municipio, PR 113 km (70 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Dorado Municipio
San Juan Municipio, PR 113 km (70 mi) N of here earthquakes near San Juan Municipio
Carolina Municipio, PR 115 km (71 mi) N of here earthquakes near Carolina Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.6 127 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  2. 3.4 84 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.3 113 km NNE of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  4. 3.7 107 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  5. 3.5 127 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  6. 3.2 94 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  7. 3.2 112 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  8. 3.4 113 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  9. 3.1 77 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico
  10. 3.4 105 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  11. 3.5 132 km NNE of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  12. 3.5 116 km NNE of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  13. 3.6 130 km NNE of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  14. 3.5 119 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  15. 3.5 118 km N of Brenas, 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 4.0 on 2019-06-21 — it released about 21 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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