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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 4.8md

66 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico

· 12 km deep · released about 270 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 4.8 (md)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
128 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Aguadilla Municipio, 68 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2473 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon. 128 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 270 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 620× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 28× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 19× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.8 about 270 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 580× 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 19.0860, -67.2033. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 68 km (42 mi) N of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio
Isabela Municipio, PR 70 km (43 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Isabela Municipio
Quebradillas Municipio, PR 75 km (46 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Quebradillas Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 79 km (49 mi) N of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Camuy Municipio, PR 80 km (50 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Camuy Municipio
Moca Municipio, PR 80 km (50 mi) N of here earthquakes near Moca Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.9 74 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.9 69 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.6 76 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.6 71 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico
  5. 3.0 72 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  6. 3.0 92 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  7. 3.2 71 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  8. 3.0 85 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.9 76 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.7 74 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.9 83 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.8 81 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  13. 3.1 84 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.9 70 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.7 73 km NNW 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 6.0 on 2019-09-24 — it released about 55 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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