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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.0md

5 km S of Guánica, Puerto Rico

· 9.1 km deep · released about 890 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.0 (md)
Depth
9.1 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Guánica Municipio, 3 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 544 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 17.9253, -66.9120. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Guánica Municipio, PR 3 km (2 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Guánica Municipio
Lajas Municipio, PR 15 km (9 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Lajas Municipio
Guayanilla Municipio, PR 15 km (9 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Guayanilla Municipio
Sabana Grande Municipio, PR 18 km (11 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Sabana Grande Municipio
Yauco Municipio, PR 19 km (12 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Yauco Municipio
Peñuelas Municipio, PR 22 km (14 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Peñuelas Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.9 1 km SE of Indios, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.1 2 km SSE of Indios, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.9 5 km W of Maricao, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.3 7 km S of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.4 0 km NE of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.3 9 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.0 1 km WSW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.3 2 km ESE of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
  9. 1.9 0 km N of Indios, Puerto Rico
  10. 3.0 2 km SSE of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.3 0 km NNE of Indios, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.3 2 km SSE of Indios, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.5 0 km ESE of Indios, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.3 1 km ESE of Indios, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.4 1 km SSE of Indios, 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 130,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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