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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.1md

15 km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico

· 107 km deep · released about 1,500 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.1 (md)
Depth
107 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Hatillo Municipio, 21 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 104 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 1,500 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 6.7 220,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 9,800× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 6,900× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.1 about 1,500 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.6× 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 18.6257, -66.8007. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Hatillo Municipio, PR 21 km (13 mi) N of here earthquakes near Hatillo Municipio
Camuy Municipio, PR 21 km (13 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Camuy Municipio
Quebradillas Municipio, PR 22 km (14 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Quebradillas Municipio
Arecibo Municipio, PR 25 km (16 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Arecibo Municipio
Isabela Municipio, PR 27 km (17 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Isabela Municipio
Barceloneta Municipio, PR 31 km (19 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Barceloneta 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. 3.2 27 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.3 2 km SSW of Las Marías, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.8 43 km NNE of Arecibo, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.8 10 km NNE of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.6 5 km N of Animas, Puerto Rico
  6. 3.1 36 km NNE of Arecibo, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.4 1 km SW of Lares, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.4 19 km NNE of Arecibo, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.3 4 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.2 12 km S of Lares, Puerto Rico
  11. 3.1 57 km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico
  12. 3.0 52 km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.8 17 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.7 14 km N of Carrizales, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.9 27 km NNW 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 2018-12-09 — it released about 78 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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