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M 4.0Ml

84 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico

· 39 km deep · released about 15 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 4.0 (Ml)
Depth
39 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Tsunami
USGS flagged this event for tsunami evaluation. Follow tsunami.gov for official messages.
Nearest
Fajardo Municipio, 79 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3585 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 15 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 11,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 500× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 350× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.0 about 15 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 32× 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 19.0729, -65.3929. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Fajardo Municipio, PR 79 km (49 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Fajardo Municipio
Culebra Municipio, PR 83 km (52 mi) N of here earthquakes near Culebra Municipio
Luquillo Municipio, PR 85 km (53 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Luquillo Municipio
Río Grande Municipio, PR 88 km (55 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Río Grande Municipio
Loíza Municipio, PR 91 km (56 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Loíza Municipio
Ceiba Municipio, PR 94 km (59 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Ceiba Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 57 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  2. 2.8 51 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.1 66 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  4. 2.4 73 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  5. 2.9 75 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  6. 2.5 75 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  7. 2.1 71 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  8. 2.7 89 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.9 55 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  10. 3.2 72 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  11. 2.1 73 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  12. 2.8 72 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  13. 2.4 73 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  14. 3.0 123 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.0 70 km N of Culebra, 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 4.3 on 2016-09-04 — it released about 2.8 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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