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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.2Md

15 km NNW of Camuy, Puerto Rico

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

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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 3.2 (Md)
Depth
78 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Quebradillas Municipio, 18 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3457 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 18.6170, -66.8755. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Quebradillas Municipio, PR 18 km (11 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Quebradillas Municipio
Camuy Municipio, PR 19 km (12 mi) N of here earthquakes near Camuy Municipio
Isabela Municipio, PR 21 km (13 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Isabela Municipio
Hatillo Municipio, PR 21 km (13 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Hatillo Municipio
Arecibo Municipio, PR 29 km (18 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Arecibo Municipio
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 32 km (20 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 18 km NNE of Arecibo, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.8 29 km N of Garrochales, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.2 27 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.3 12 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.8 16 km N of Carrizales, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.5 44 km N of Garrochales, Puerto Rico
  7. 3.0 Puerto Rico region
  8. 2.2 Puerto Rico region
  9. 2.5 55 km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.8 10 km NNE of Arecibo, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.6 6 km ENE of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.5 1 km SE of Moca, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.4 0 km N of La Playa, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.9 34 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.5 34 km N 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 2017-03-24 — it released about 16 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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