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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 4.0md

102 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico

· 39 km deep · released about 17 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Aguadilla Municipio 103 kmIsabela Municipio 108 kmAguada Municipio 112 kmRincón Municipio 114 kmQuebradillas Municipio 115 kmMoca Municipio 116 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
Magnitude
M 4.0 (md)
Depth
39 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Aguadilla Municipio, 103 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2466 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 17 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 9,800× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 440× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 310× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.0 about 17 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 36× 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 19.3313, -67.5186. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 103 km (64 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio
Isabela Municipio, PR 108 km (67 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Isabela Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 112 km (70 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Rincón Municipio, PR 114 km (71 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Quebradillas Municipio, PR 115 km (71 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Quebradillas Municipio
Moca Municipio, PR 116 km (72 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Moca Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.0 92 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.8 72 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.7 67 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.6 87 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.9 84 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.8 91 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.9 64 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  8. 3.1 62 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  9. 3.0 94 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  10. 3.0 88 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  11. 3.1 79 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.9 70 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.6 81 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.7 90 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.8 92 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 870 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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