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M 3.2Md

38 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico

· 136 km deep · released about 1,900 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.2 (Md)
Depth
136 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mayagüez Municipio, 36 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3421 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 1,900 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 7,900× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 5,600× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 1,900 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2× 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 18.1366, -67.5538. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mayagüez Municipio, PR 36 km (22 mi) E of here earthquakes near Mayagüez Municipio
Rincón Municipio, PR 39 km (24 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Cabo Rojo Municipio, PR 42 km (26 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Cabo Rojo Municipio
Hormigueros Municipio, PR 46 km (29 mi) W of here earthquakes near Hormigueros Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 47 km (29 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Añasco Municipio, PR 48 km (30 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.8 36 km W of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.4 9 km S of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.3 2 km NNE of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
  4. 3.5 60 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.6 34 km NW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.2 9 km WNW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.0 6 km SSW of Palmarejo, Puerto Rico
  8. 3.0 45 km W of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  9. 3.3 40 km WNW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  10. 1.9 5 km SW of Palmarejo, Puerto Rico
  11. 1.9 33 km NW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.4 44 km NW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.5 42 km WNW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.8 38 km WNW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  15. 3.0 42 km W of Rincón, 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.

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