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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.0md

1 km E of Jagual, Puerto Rico

· 77 km deep · released about 1,100 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N San Lorenzo Municipio 1 kmCaguas Municipio 9 kmJuncos Municipio 10 kmLas Piedras Municipio 12 kmGurabo Municipio 13 kmYabucoa Municipio 17 kmPatillas Municipio 18 kmAguas Buenas Municipio 19 kmCayey Municipio 19 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 3.0 (md)
Depth
77 km below the surface
Felt
3 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
San Lorenzo Municipio, 1 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1170 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 3 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,100 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 6.7 320,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 14,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 10,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 1,100 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 18.1598, -65.9808. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
San Lorenzo Municipio, PR 1 km (1 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near San Lorenzo Municipio
Caguas Municipio, PR 9 km (6 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Caguas Municipio
Juncos Municipio, PR 10 km (7 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Juncos Municipio
Las Piedras Municipio, PR 12 km (7 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Las Piedras Municipio
Gurabo Municipio, PR 13 km (8 mi) S of here earthquakes near Gurabo Municipio
Yabucoa Municipio, PR 17 km (11 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Yabucoa Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.6 4 km SSE of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.4 6 km S of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.7 Puerto Rico region
  4. 2.5 4 km SSE of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.5 Puerto Rico region
  6. 2.8 1 km SSW of Cidra, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.4 6 km SSE of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.3 4 km SSE of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.7 6 km SSE of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.7 5 km SSE of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.5 Puerto Rico region
  12. 2.3 Puerto Rico region
  13. 1.9 6 km SSE of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  14. 3.2 2 km NNW of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.6 3 km SSE of Salinas, 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 4.6 on 2016-12-05 — it released about 230 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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