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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.0md

16 km W of Rincón, Puerto Rico

· 20 km deep · released about 890 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
20 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Rincón Municipio, 16 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 530 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 890 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 6.7 380,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 17,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 12,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 890 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 18.3482, -67.4048. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Rincón Municipio, PR 16 km (10 mi) W of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 23 km (14 mi) W of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Añasco Municipio, PR 30 km (18 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 31 km (19 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio
Moca Municipio, PR 34 km (21 mi) W of here earthquakes near Moca Municipio
Hormigueros Municipio, PR 39 km (24 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Hormigueros Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.5 17 km W of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  2. 3.8 31 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.0 28 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.5 1 km W of Las Marías, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.8 17 km SSW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  6. 3.1 29 km WNW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  7. 3.8 47 km NW of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.6 4 km NNW of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.8 7 km NW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.5 11 km WSW of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.7 10 km WNW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.8 2 km ENE of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.8 5 km WSW of Maricao, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.8 29 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  15. 3.2 24 km N of San Antonio, 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 4.4 on 2017-10-01 — it released about 130 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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