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M 3.0Md

Earthquake near Levittown, PR

No earthquake was likely felt in Levittown in the 24 hours to 10:13 am AST (14:13 UTC). The last one was M 4.8, 99 km (61 mi) SW, at 9:19 am AST on 18 September 2026, estimated intensity III (weak) in town; 86 felt reports to USGS. Every earthquake near Levittown

This page: a magnitude 3.0 earthquake was recorded 7 km (4 mi) north-northeast of Levittown, PR, at 10:00 pm AST on 5 March 2017 (02:00 UTC), 81 km deep.

USGS: 6 km NNE of Levittown, Puerto Rico

15 km (9 mi) NW of San Juan, PR · 14 km (9 mi) N of Bayamón, PR

10:00 pm AST, Mar 5, 2017 · · 81 km deep · released about 950 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Toa Baja Municipio 7 kmCataño Municipio 7 kmDorado Municipio 12 kmSan Juan Municipio 13 kmBayamón Municipio 17 kmToa Alta Municipio 18 kmGuaynabo Municipio 18 kmVega Alta Municipio 21 kmCarolina Municipio 23 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
10:00 pm AST on 5 March 2017 ()
Where
7 km (4 mi) north-northeast of Levittown, PR · earthquakes near Levittown
Magnitude
M 3.0 (Md)
Depth
81 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Toa Baja Municipio, 7 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3452 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

At this magnitude and depth it was probably too small to be felt, even directly above it. In Levittown, 7 km away, the estimate is intensity II (weak). Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.

Earthquakes near other towns within 30 km: San Juan, Cataño, Sabana Seca, Ingenio, Candelaria Arenas, Bayamón.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 950 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 6.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 16,000× 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 950 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.

For this area

No earthquake of M4 or more has been recorded within 50 km since our catalogue begins in 2016.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 3 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km:

  1. 5.8 12 km N of Garrochales, Puerto Rico · 44 km W of this epicentre
  2. 5.1 3 km W of Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico · 27 km S of this epicentre
  3. 5.0 3 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico · 20 km W of this epicentre

Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.

Where

Epicentre 18.5055, -66.1555. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection from the epicentre
Toa Baja Municipio, PR 7 km (4 mi) SW earthquakes near Toa Baja Municipio
Cataño Municipio, PR 7 km (4 mi) S earthquakes near Cataño Municipio
Dorado Municipio, PR 12 km (7 mi) WSW earthquakes near Dorado Municipio
San Juan Municipio, PR 13 km (8 mi) SE earthquakes near San Juan Municipio
Bayamón Municipio, PR 17 km (11 mi) S earthquakes near Bayamón Municipio
Toa Alta Municipio, PR 18 km (11 mi) SSW earthquakes near Toa Alta Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.0 22 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.3 0 km N of Pastos, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.7 42 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.6 27 km NNW of Loíza, Puerto Rico
  5. 3.1 1 km SW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.7 2 km WSW of Río Lajas, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.3 5 km NNW of Brenas, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.8 29 km N of Garrochales, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.8 4 km WNW of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.3 45 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico
  11. 3.4 2 km NNE of Barahona, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.5 2 km WNW of Parcelas Nuevas, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.4 3 km SW of Río Lajas, Puerto Rico
  14. 3.0 4 km ENE of Guaynabo, Puerto Rico
  15. 1.8 0 km NNE of Ciales, 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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