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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.1md

42 km SE of Emajagua, Puerto Rico

· 26 km deep · released about 1,300 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Maunabo Municipio 44 kmYabucoa Municipio 47 kmPatillas Municipio 50 kmArroyo Municipio 52 kmHumacao Municipio 52 kmVieques Municipio 55 kmNaguabo Municipio 60 kmGuayama Municipio 60 kmLas Piedras Municipio 61 km
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When
Magnitude
M 3.1 (md)
Depth
26 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Maunabo Municipio, 44 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 468 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 1,300 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 250,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 11,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 7,900× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.1 about 1,300 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.4× 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 17.6802, -65.6570. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Maunabo Municipio, PR 44 km (27 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Maunabo Municipio
Yabucoa Municipio, PR 47 km (29 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Yabucoa Municipio
Patillas Municipio, PR 50 km (31 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Patillas Municipio
Arroyo Municipio, PR 52 km (32 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Arroyo Municipio
Humacao Municipio, PR 52 km (33 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Humacao Municipio
Vieques Municipio, PR 55 km (34 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Vieques Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.5 11 km SSE of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.9 21 km SW of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.7 29 km SSW of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  4. 3.2 54 km WSW of Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
  5. 2.0 11 km SSE of Punta Santiago, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.6 26 km SE of El Negro, Puerto Rico
  7. 3.0 30 km SSW of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  8. 3.1 83 km SSE of Emajagua, Puerto Rico
  9. 3.1 30 km SE of Emajagua, Puerto Rico
  10. 3.0 19 km WSW of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.9 29 km SSW of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  12. 3.1 65 km SSE of Arroyo, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.0 9 km S of Emajagua, Puerto Rico
  14. 3.2 9 km WSW of Esperanza, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.1 8 km ESE of Comunas, 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 4.8 on 2021-10-08 — it released about 350 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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