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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.2md

1 km SW of Palomas, Puerto Rico

· 11 km deep · released about 1,800 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
11 km below the surface
Felt
4 reports · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Guánica Municipio, 7 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2262 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 4 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

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 18.0021, -66.8826. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Guánica Municipio, PR 7 km (5 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Guánica Municipio
Guayanilla Municipio, PR 9 km (6 mi) W of here earthquakes near Guayanilla Municipio
Yauco Municipio, PR 10 km (6 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Yauco Municipio
Sabana Grande Municipio, PR 11 km (7 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Sabana Grande Municipio
Peñuelas Municipio, PR 17 km (10 mi) W of here earthquakes near Peñuelas Municipio
Lajas Municipio, PR 17 km (10 mi) E of here earthquakes near Lajas 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. 3.6 3 km S of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.5 2 km SE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.5 3 km S of Indios, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.2 2 km NNW of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.5 7 km SSE of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.8 1 km NE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  7. 3.0 4 km SSW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.4 2 km N of Indios, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.9 5 km WSW of Fuig, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.6 16 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.7 10 km SSE of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  12. 3.0 9 km SSE of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.9 10 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.6 8 km SSE of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.7 8 km SSE of Guánica, 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 68,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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