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M 3.1md

60 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico

· 58 km deep · released about 1,600 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
58 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mayagüez Municipio, 12 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 876 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 1,600 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 210,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 9,400× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 6,700× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.1 about 1,600 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.7× 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 18.1358, -67.7883. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mayagüez Municipio, PR 12 km (7 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Mayagüez Municipio
Rincón Municipio, PR 61 km (38 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Cabo Rojo Municipio, PR 66 km (41 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Cabo Rojo Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 69 km (43 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Hormigueros Municipio, PR 71 km (44 mi) W of here earthquakes near Hormigueros Municipio
Añasco Municipio, PR 71 km (44 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.8 24 km SW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.8 17 km SW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.0 19 km W of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  4. 3.7 66 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  5. 2.7 23 km WNW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  6. 3.3 62 km SE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  7. 3.0 37 km W of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  8. 3.0 24 km W of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.9 22 km W of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  10. 3.5 81 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  11. 3.8 74 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  12. 3.8 86 km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic
  13. 3.3 58 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  14. 3.5 76 km W of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  15. 3.4 39 km SSE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

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 4.4 on 2020-11-04 — it released about 75 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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