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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.0md

18 km S of Esperanza, Puerto Rico

· 14 km deep · released about 890 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.0 (md)
Depth
14 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Vieques Municipio, 22 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1305 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 890 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 6.7 380,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 17,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 12,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 890 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 17.9287, -65.4388. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Vieques Municipio, PR 22 km (14 mi) S of here earthquakes near Vieques Municipio
Ceiba Municipio, PR 41 km (25 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Ceiba Municipio
Humacao Municipio, PR 43 km (27 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Humacao Municipio
Naguabo Municipio, PR 44 km (28 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Naguabo Municipio
Culebra Municipio, PR 46 km (29 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Culebra Municipio
Yabucoa Municipio, PR 47 km (29 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Yabucoa Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.4 29 km SSW of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  2. 3.6 4 km SSW of Bajandas, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.1 13 km ESE of El Negro, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.9 8 km SE of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.8 5 km S of Punta Santiago, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.9 31 km SSW of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.4 30 km SE of Emajagua, Puerto Rico
  8. 3.7 26 km SSW of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  9. 3.3 14 km SSE of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  10. 3.1 15 km SE of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  11. 3.0 20 km SE of Emajagua, Puerto Rico
  12. 3.2 22 km SSE of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  13. 3.5 9 km ENE of Luis M. Cintron, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.6 10 km ESE of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.5 10 km S of Emajagua, 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 4.8 on 2021-10-08 — it released about 540 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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