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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.0md

7 km ENE of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico

· 24 km deep · released about 1,100 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 3.0 (md)
Depth
24 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Añasco Municipio, 10 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 740 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 1,100 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 6.7 310,000× 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 9,800× 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 18.2163, -67.0737. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Añasco Municipio, PR 10 km (6 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio
Hormigueros Municipio, PR 10 km (6 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Hormigueros Municipio
Las Marías Municipio, PR 10 km (6 mi) W of here earthquakes near Las Marías Municipio
San Germán Municipio, PR 13 km (8 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near San Germán Municipio
Maricao Municipio, PR 15 km (10 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Maricao Municipio
San Sebastián Municipio, PR 17 km (10 mi) SW of here earthquakes near San Sebastián Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.9 8 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  2. 3.0 19 km W of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.8 7 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.7 5 km SSW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.0 4 km SW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.2 2 km N of Palomas, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.5 5 km W of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.0 6 km NE of Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.8 2 km NW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.5 6 km E of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.5 2 km SSE of Indios, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.7 3 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.3 2 km SSE of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.5 0 km N of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico
  15. 3.4 1 km ENE of Magas Arriba, 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 110,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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