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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.2md

9 km NW of Coto Laurel, Puerto Rico

· 21 km deep · released about 1.1 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Jayuya Municipio 10 kmPonce Municipio 13 kmVillalba Municipio 14 kmPeñuelas Municipio 17 kmAdjuntas Municipio 18 kmJuana Díaz Municipio 18 kmUtuado Municipio 20 kmOrocovis Municipio 21 kmCiales Municipio 22 km
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
21 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Jayuya Municipio, 10 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1826 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 1.1 tons 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 6.7 160,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 7,200× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 5,100× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 1.1 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2.2× 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 18.1198, -66.6048. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Jayuya Municipio, PR 10 km (6 mi) S of here earthquakes near Jayuya Municipio
Ponce Municipio, PR 13 km (8 mi) N of here earthquakes near Ponce Municipio
Villalba Municipio, PR 14 km (9 mi) W of here earthquakes near Villalba Municipio
Peñuelas Municipio, PR 17 km (10 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Peñuelas Municipio
Adjuntas Municipio, PR 18 km (11 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Adjuntas Municipio
Juana Díaz Municipio, PR 18 km (11 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Juana Díaz Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.9 Puerto Rico region
  2. 2.6 7 km S of Indios, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.0 6 km WSW of Fuig, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.5 17 km SSE of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.4 4 km SSW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.9 1 km SSW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  7. 3.3 3 km SE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.6 3 km SSW of Peñuelas, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.1 1 km E of Indios, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.0 8 km WSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.4 8 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.6 6 km WSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.2 4 km WSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.1 9 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.8 7 km SE of Maria Antonia, 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 57,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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