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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.1md

5 km W of Boquerón, Puerto Rico

· 15 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
15 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Cabo Rojo Municipio, 5 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1171 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 18.0277, -67.2200. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Cabo Rojo Municipio, PR 5 km (3 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Cabo Rojo Municipio
Hormigueros Municipio, PR 16 km (10 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Hormigueros Municipio
Lajas Municipio, PR 20 km (12 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Lajas Municipio
San Germán Municipio, PR 21 km (13 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near San Germán Municipio
Sabana Grande Municipio, PR 29 km (18 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Sabana Grande Municipio
Añasco Municipio, PR 30 km (19 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.5 14 km SSE of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.7 Mona Passage
  3. 2.2 4 km WSW of Palmarejo, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.3 10 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  5. 3.2 5 km SW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.7 9 km NW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.6 8 km WSW of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.6 2 km WNW of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.4 21 km SW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.0 1 km E of Palomas, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.2 5 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.1 5 km WSW of Liborio Negron Torres, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.8 Mona Passage
  14. 2.6 2 km SE of Palmarejo, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.3 10 km SSW of Guánica, 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 6.4 on 2020-01-07 — it released about 83,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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