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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.5md

109 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico

· 61 km deep · released about 2.9 tons 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 3.5 (md)
Depth
61 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Fajardo Municipio, 108 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2650 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 2.9 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 59,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,600× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,900× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.5 about 2.9 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 6× 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 19.3518, -65.4731. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Fajardo Municipio, PR 108 km (67 mi) N of here earthquakes near Fajardo Municipio
Luquillo Municipio, PR 112 km (70 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Luquillo Municipio
Loíza Municipio, PR 112 km (70 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Loíza Municipio
Río Grande Municipio, PR 114 km (71 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Río Grande Municipio
Culebra Municipio, PR 115 km (72 mi) N of here earthquakes near Culebra Municipio
Carolina Municipio, PR 118 km (74 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Carolina Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.7 96 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico
  2. 3.0 Puerto Rico region
  3. 2.6 141 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.8 123 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  5. 3.3 142 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  6. 3.2 142 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.7 103 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.5 117 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  9. 3.0 133 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  10. 3.1 147 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.4 137 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  12. 3.2 129 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  13. 3.4 150 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  14. 3.3 111 km NNE of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  15. 3.2 112 km NNE of Suárez, 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 4.5 on 2018-03-06 — it released about 30 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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