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M 3.2md

6 km ENE of Jayuya, Puerto Rico

· 127 km deep · released about 1,700 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.2 (md)
Depth
127 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Jayuya Municipio, 6 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3057 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 1,700 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 6.7 200,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 9,100× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 6,500× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 1,700 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.7× 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 18.2465, -66.5425. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Jayuya Municipio, PR 6 km (4 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Jayuya Municipio
Ciales Municipio, PR 6 km (4 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Ciales Municipio
Orocovis Municipio, PR 12 km (7 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Orocovis Municipio
Florida Municipio, PR 14 km (9 mi) S of here earthquakes near Florida Municipio
Villalba Municipio, PR 15 km (9 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Villalba Municipio
Morovis Municipio, PR 15 km (9 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Morovis Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.5 9 km N of Dorado, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.1 6 km NW of Palomas, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.0 7 km SSW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.8 1 km N of Bayamón, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.4 8 km ESE of Jayuya, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.2 2 km SSW of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.7 Puerto Rico region
  8. 1.9 4 km NNW of Lluveras, Puerto Rico
  9. 3.0 1 km N of Ingenio, Puerto Rico
  10. 3.3 1 km SE of Sumidero, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.6 19 km NNE of Arecibo, Puerto Rico
  12. 1.9 5 km SE of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico
  13. 1.6 7 km SSW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  14. 1.9 11 km SSW of Potala Pastillo, Puerto Rico
  15. 1.8 9 km ESE of Maricao, 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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