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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.6md

50 km NW of Rincón, Puerto Rico

· 4.0 km deep · released about 3.9 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.6 (md)
Depth
4.0 km below the surface
Felt
4 reports · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Rincón Municipio, 51 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1926 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 3.9 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 43,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,900× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.6 about 3.9 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 8.2× 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 18.6713, -67.5841. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Rincón Municipio, PR 51 km (32 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 51 km (32 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 53 km (33 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Moca Municipio, PR 62 km (39 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Moca Municipio
Isabela Municipio, PR 64 km (40 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Isabela Municipio
Añasco Municipio, PR 64 km (40 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.2 31 km WNW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  2. 3.2 48 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.0 11 km NNW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  4. 3.1 7 km WNW of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico
  5. 3.0 14 km NW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  6. 3.1 57 km WNW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  7. 3.5 51 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  8. 3.4 70 km ENE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  9. 3.1 86 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  10. 3.0 25 km NNW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  11. 3.2 87 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  12. 3.4 34 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  13. 3.3 44 km NW of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico
  14. 3.2 45 km NW of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico
  15. 3.9 56 km WNW of Rincón, 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 4.6 on 2020-01-29 — it released about 31 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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