124 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 2.3 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 75,000× the energy of this one
2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 3,300× the energy of this one
3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,400× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 3.5 about 2.3 tons of TNT
5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 4.7× 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 19.5818, -65.9958. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 3.6 124 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico 22:04 UTC
2. 3.0 Puerto Rico region 04:15 UTC
3. 3.2 80 km N of Loíza, Puerto Rico 01:34 UTC
4. 3.5 110 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico 00:23 UTC
5. 3.6 127 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico 14:11 UTC
6. 3.4 84 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico 07:41 UTC
7. 3.3 113 km NNE of San Juan, Puerto Rico 23:55 UTC
8. 3.7 107 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico 03:25 UTC
9. 3.5 127 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico 03:34 UTC
10. 3.2 94 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico 08:33 UTC
11. 3.2 112 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico 05:27 UTC
12. 3.4 113 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico 07:16 UTC
13. 3.4 105 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico 22:37 UTC
14. 3.5 132 km NNE of Suárez, Puerto Rico 22:57 UTC
15. 3.5 116 km NNE of Suárez, Puerto Rico 22:44 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 11:41 UTC. 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 4.4 on 2016-10-23 — it released about 27 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

• The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
• Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
• ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

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