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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.2md

6 km ESE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico

· 7.0 km deep · released about 2,000 lb 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 3.2 (md)
Depth
7.0 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Lajas Municipio, 7 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2363 days ago

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 2,000 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 6.7 170,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 7,700× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 5,400× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 2,000 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2.1× 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 17.9406, -66.9915. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lajas Municipio, PR 7 km (4 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Lajas Municipio
Guánica Municipio, PR 7 km (5 mi) W of here earthquakes near Guánica Municipio
Sabana Grande Municipio, PR 17 km (10 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Sabana Grande Municipio
San Germán Municipio, PR 19 km (12 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near San Germán Municipio
Cabo Rojo Municipio, PR 21 km (13 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Cabo Rojo Municipio
Yauco Municipio, PR 21 km (13 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Yauco 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 1 km SSE of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico
  2. 3.1 12 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.4 5 km SE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  4. 3.0 5 km S of Indios, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.9 7 km SW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  6. 3.2 5 km SE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  7. 3.5 4 km WSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  8. 3.5 7 km SE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.8 10 km SSE of Indios, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.5 9 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.4 1 km W of Indios, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.7 2 km SE of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.7 3 km ESE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  14. 3.0 10 km SSE of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico
  15. 3.5 8 km SE of Maria Antonia, 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 6.4 on 2020-01-07 — it released about 61,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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