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M 3.0md

7 km E of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico

· 11 km deep · released about 990 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.0 (md)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Cabo Rojo Municipio, 7 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 282 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 990 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 6.7 340,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 15,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 11,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 990 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 17.9793, -67.1178. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Cabo Rojo Municipio, PR 7 km (4 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Cabo Rojo Municipio
Lajas Municipio, PR 8 km (5 mi) W of here earthquakes near Lajas Municipio
San Germán Municipio, PR 17 km (10 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near San Germán Municipio
Hormigueros Municipio, PR 17 km (11 mi) S of here earthquakes near Hormigueros Municipio
Guánica Municipio, PR 21 km (13 mi) W of here earthquakes near Guánica Municipio
Sabana Grande Municipio, PR 21 km (13 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Sabana Grande Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.4 8 km SSW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.2 0 km ENE of Indios, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.4 7 km SW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.1 3 km WSW of Fuig, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.3 13 km SSE of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.3 2 km ESE of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.7 1 km SSE of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.1 1 km SSW of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.2 13 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.2 13 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.5 13 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  12. 3.3 10 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.5 9 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.6 7 km WNW of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico
  15. 1.7 6 km SW of Guánica, 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 120,000 times the energy of this one.

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

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