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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.2md

36 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico

· 65 km deep · released about 1,700 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
65 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Fajardo Municipio, 31 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1511 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 1,700 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 6.7 200,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 8,800× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 6,200× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 1,700 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.8× 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 18.6693, -65.5736. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Fajardo Municipio, PR 31 km (20 mi) N of here earthquakes near Fajardo Municipio
Luquillo Municipio, PR 36 km (23 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Luquillo Municipio
Río Grande Municipio, PR 40 km (25 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Río Grande Municipio
Loíza Municipio, PR 46 km (29 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Loíza Municipio
Ceiba Municipio, PR 47 km (29 mi) N of here earthquakes near Ceiba Municipio
Culebra Municipio, PR 47 km (29 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Culebra Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.5 25 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico
  2. 3.4 67 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.8 25 km NNE of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  4. 3.2 43 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  5. 3.0 38 km NNE of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  6. 3.4 63 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.8 8 km NW of Loíza, Puerto Rico
  8. 3.7 79 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  9. 3.2 60 km N of Loíza, Puerto Rico
  10. 3.5 84 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico
  11. 3.5 74 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  12. 3.6 0 km W of Canovanas, Puerto Rico
  13. 4.0 66 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  14. 3.7 67 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  15. 3.4 28 km NNE of Vieques, 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 4.8 on 2021-03-09 — it released about 280 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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