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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.4Md

90 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico

· 38 km deep · released about 1.9 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Aguadilla Municipio 91 kmIsabela Municipio 94 kmQuebradillas Municipio 99 kmAguada Municipio 103 kmCamuy Municipio 103 kmMoca Municipio 104 kmRincón Municipio 106 kmHatillo Municipio 107 kmSan Sebastián Municipio 112 km
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 3.4 (Md)
Depth
38 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Aguadilla Municipio, 91 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3700 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 1.9 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 89,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 4,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,800× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.4 about 1.9 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 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 19.2952, -67.2612. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 91 km (57 mi) N of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio
Isabela Municipio, PR 94 km (58 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Isabela Municipio
Quebradillas Municipio, PR 99 km (61 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Quebradillas Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 103 km (64 mi) N of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Camuy Municipio, PR 103 km (64 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Camuy Municipio
Moca Municipio, PR 104 km (65 mi) N of here earthquakes near Moca Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.2 90 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.9 58 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.7 126 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.7 127 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  5. 3.0 94 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.3 94 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico
  7. 3.1 88 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico
  8. 3.1 118 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico
  9. 3.0 59 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.7 67 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  11. 3.1 61 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.8 62 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.8 91 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  14. 3.3 108 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.2 63 km NW 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 4.0 on 2016-02-13 — it released about 7.9 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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