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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.1md

6 km W of Maricao, Puerto Rico

· 115 km deep · released about 1,500 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
115 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity I
Nearest
San Germán Municipio, 8 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 937 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 1,500 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 18.1770, -67.0448. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
San Germán Municipio, PR 8 km (5 mi) N of here earthquakes near San Germán Municipio
Hormigueros Municipio, PR 9 km (6 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Hormigueros Municipio
Las Marías Municipio, PR 9 km (6 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Las Marías Municipio
Maricao Municipio, PR 12 km (7 mi) W of here earthquakes near Maricao Municipio
Sabana Grande Municipio, PR 15 km (9 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Sabana Grande Municipio
Añasco Municipio, PR 15 km (9 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 2 km WNW of Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.3 5 km SE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.1 0 km NNE of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.6 5 km SW of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.5 6 km SW of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.2 3 km S of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  7. 3.1 0 km N of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.2 8 km SW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  9. 1.6 3 km SE of Palomas, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.2 6 km WSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.3 6 km WSW of Fuig, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.1 6 km SW of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.2 10 km SSE of Indios, Puerto Rico
  14. 1.7 3 km SW of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.3 3 km N of Guayanilla, 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 78,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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