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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.2md

3 km S of Guaynabo, Puerto Rico

· 60 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
60 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Guaynabo Municipio, 2 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1846 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 2 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 18.3245, -66.1075. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Guaynabo Municipio, PR 2 km (1 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Guaynabo Municipio
Bayamón Municipio, PR 7 km (4 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Bayamón Municipio
Aguas Buenas Municipio, PR 8 km (5 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Aguas Buenas Municipio
Trujillo Alto Municipio, PR 11 km (7 mi) W of here earthquakes near Trujillo Alto Municipio
San Juan Municipio, PR 12 km (7 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near San Juan Municipio
Caguas Municipio, PR 14 km (9 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Caguas Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.7 6 km SSE of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.6 6 km SSE of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.2 6 km SSE of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.3 6 km SSE of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.5 4 km SSE of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.3 6 km NW of Palomas, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.2 2 km E of G. L. Garcia, Puerto Rico
  8. 3.6 0 km W of Canovanas, Puerto Rico
  9. 1.6 2 km SSE of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  10. 3.2 6 km WNW of Palomas, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.5 3 km NE of Las Ochenta, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.5 2 km SSW of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  13. 3.6 2 km ESE of Pájaros, Puerto Rico
  14. 3.1 3 km ESE of Salinas, Puerto Rico
  15. 3.4 4 km ESE of Salinas, 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 2019-03-12 — it released about 130 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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