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M 3.1md

35 km W of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico

· 41 km deep · released about 1,500 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Cabo Rojo Municipio 37 kmMayagüez Municipio 39 kmRincón Municipio 42 kmHormigueros Municipio 43 kmAñasco Municipio 48 kmAguada Municipio 49 kmSan Germán Municipio 51 kmLajas Municipio 52 kmMoca Municipio 58 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
41 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Cabo Rojo Municipio, 37 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1286 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 1,500 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 6.7 220,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 9,800× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 6,900× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.1 about 1,500 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.6× 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 18.0645, -67.5192. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Cabo Rojo Municipio, PR 37 km (23 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Cabo Rojo Municipio
Mayagüez Municipio, PR 39 km (24 mi) E of here earthquakes near Mayagüez Municipio
Rincón Municipio, PR 42 km (26 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Hormigueros Municipio, PR 43 km (27 mi) W of here earthquakes near Hormigueros Municipio
Añasco Municipio, PR 48 km (30 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 49 km (31 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.8 23 km NW of Rinc?n, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.9 16 km W of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.5 10 km W of Stella, Puerto Rico
  4. 1.7 0 km N of Sabana Eneas, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.7 24 km WNW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  6. 3.1 19 km SW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.5 3 km E of Stella, Puerto Rico
  8. 1.8 0 km S of Palmarejo, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.4 0 km NNE of Palmarejo, Puerto Rico
  10. 3.4 16 km WNW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.3 5 km ESE of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.3 6 km SE of Boquerón, Puerto Rico
  13. 3.4 68 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  14. 2.4 Mona Passage
  15. 2.7 3 km SE of Palmarejo, 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 4.5 on 2021-07-18 — it released about 95 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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