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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.1md

46 km NW of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico

· 9.7 km deep · released about 1,600 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Aguadilla Municipio 44 kmRincón Municipio 49 kmAguada Municipio 49 kmIsabela Municipio 55 kmMoca Municipio 56 kmAñasco Municipio 60 kmQuebradillas Municipio 64 kmSan Sebastián Municipio 68 kmCamuy Municipio 71 km
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
9.7 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity I
Nearest
Aguadilla Municipio, 44 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1363 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 1,600 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 210,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 9,400× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 6,700× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.1 about 1,600 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.7× 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 18.7238, -67.4683. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 44 km (27 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio
Rincón Municipio, PR 49 km (30 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 49 km (30 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Isabela Municipio, PR 55 km (34 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Isabela Municipio
Moca Municipio, PR 56 km (35 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Moca Municipio
Añasco Municipio, PR 60 km (37 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.8 23 km NW of Rinc?n, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.5 10 km W of Stella, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.0 42 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  4. 3.2 42 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  5. 3.3 Mona Passage
  6. 3.2 52 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico
  7. 3.5 74 km NW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  8. 3.9 61 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.7 24 km WNW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  10. 3.0 68 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  11. 3.0 40 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  12. 3.4 16 km WNW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  13. 3.4 Mona Passage
  14. 2.5 Mona Passage
  15. 3.4 44 km NW of San Antonio, 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 6.0 on 2019-09-24 — it released about 19,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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