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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.5md

72 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico

· 28 km deep · released about 2.5 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Dorado Municipio 73 kmVega Baja Municipio 74 kmBarceloneta Municipio 75 kmToa Baja Municipio 76 kmVega Alta Municipio 76 kmManatí Municipio 76 kmCataño Municipio 79 kmArecibo Municipio 83 kmSan Juan Municipio 84 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 3.5 (md)
Depth
28 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Dorado Municipio, 73 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1765 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 2.5 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 68,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 3,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,100× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.5 about 2.5 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 5.2× 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 19.1183, -66.3720. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Dorado Municipio, PR 73 km (45 mi) N of here earthquakes near Dorado Municipio
Vega Baja Municipio, PR 74 km (46 mi) N of here earthquakes near Vega Baja Municipio
Barceloneta Municipio, PR 75 km (46 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Barceloneta Municipio
Toa Baja Municipio, PR 76 km (47 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Toa Baja Municipio
Vega Alta Municipio, PR 76 km (47 mi) N of here earthquakes near Vega Alta Municipio
Manatí Municipio, PR 76 km (47 mi) N of here earthquakes near Manatí Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.0 30 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.7 29 km N of Garrochales, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.0 67 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  4. 3.1 80 km N of Arecibo, Puerto Rico
  5. 3.7 103 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico
  6. 3.1 115 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico
  7. 3.4 45 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico
  8. 3.1 63 km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico
  9. 3.3 100 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  10. 3.1 38 km N of Carrizales, Puerto Rico
  11. 3.2 68 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico
  12. 3.4 72 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico
  13. 3.3 68 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico
  14. 3.3 64 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico
  15. 3.1 Puerto Rico region

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 2017-08-18 — it released about 95 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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