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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.0md

24 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico

· 38 km deep · released about 920 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
38 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Isabela Municipio, 27 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 539 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 920 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 6.7 370,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 16,000× 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 920 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 18.7227, -67.0535. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Isabela Municipio, PR 27 km (17 mi) N of here earthquakes near Isabela Municipio
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 29 km (18 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio
Quebradillas Municipio, PR 31 km (20 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Quebradillas Municipio
Camuy Municipio, PR 37 km (23 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Camuy Municipio
Moca Municipio, PR 38 km (24 mi) N of here earthquakes near Moca Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 41 km (25 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.1 37 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.8 41 km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.9 2 km NNW of Carrizales, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.7 22 km NNE of Carrizales, Puerto Rico
  5. 3.4 68 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  6. 3.0 26 km N of Garrochales, Puerto Rico
  7. 3.4 61 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.9 50 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  9. 3.2 24 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  10. 3.3 53 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  11. 3.1 32 km NNW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  12. 3.2 44 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  13. 3.1 19 km N of Arecibo, Puerto Rico
  14. 3.0 45 km NNE of Isabela, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.2 3 km NE of Las Marias, 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 6.0 on 2019-09-24 — it released about 33,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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