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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.5md

110 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico

· 56 km deep · released about 2.3 tons 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 3.5 (md)
Depth
56 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Loíza Municipio, 111 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2056 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 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 72,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 3,200× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,300× 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 4.9× 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 19.4145, -65.7060. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Loíza Municipio, PR 111 km (69 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Loíza Municipio
Fajardo Municipio, PR 115 km (71 mi) N of here earthquakes near Fajardo Municipio
Río Grande Municipio, PR 116 km (72 mi) N of here earthquakes near Río Grande Municipio
Luquillo Municipio, PR 116 km (72 mi) N of here earthquakes near Luquillo Municipio
Carolina Municipio, PR 116 km (72 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Carolina Municipio
San Juan Municipio, PR 117 km (73 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near San Juan Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.7 126 km NNE of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.7 71 km NNE of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.5 84 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico
  4. 3.5 121 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  5. 3.3 129 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  6. 3.5 135 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  7. 3.5 93 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  8. 3.3 81 km NNE of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  9. 3.2 74 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  10. 3.9 137 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  11. 3.6 147 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  12. 3.5 83 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  13. 3.4 85 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  14. 3.2 80 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  15. 3.5 79 km N of San Juan, 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 4.5 on 2018-03-06 — it released about 36 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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