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M 3.2md

43 km SSW of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico

· 8.0 km deep · released about 1,800 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Cabo Rojo Municipio 46 kmLajas Municipio 52 kmGuánica Municipio 58 kmHormigueros Municipio 62 kmSan Germán Municipio 64 kmSabana Grande Municipio 67 kmGuayanilla Municipio 73 kmYauco Municipio 74 kmMaricao Municipio 76 km
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When
Magnitude
M 3.2 (md)
Depth
8.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Cabo Rojo Municipio, 46 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2395 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 1,800 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 6.7 190,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 8,500× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 6,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 1,800 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.9× 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 17.6231, -67.3573. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Cabo Rojo Municipio, PR 46 km (28 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Cabo Rojo Municipio
Lajas Municipio, PR 52 km (32 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Lajas Municipio
Guánica Municipio, PR 58 km (36 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Guánica Municipio
Hormigueros Municipio, PR 62 km (39 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Hormigueros Municipio
San Germán Municipio, PR 64 km (40 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near San Germán Municipio
Sabana Grande Municipio, PR 67 km (42 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Sabana Grande Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 18 km S of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.7 45 km SSW of Pole Ojea, 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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