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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.2md

15 km S of Guánica, Puerto Rico

· 10 km deep · released about 1,700 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Guánica Municipio 13 kmLajas Municipio 22 kmGuayanilla Municipio 22 kmPeñuelas Municipio 28 kmSabana Grande Municipio 29 kmYauco Municipio 29 kmSan Germán Municipio 34 kmCabo Rojo Municipio 35 kmPonce Municipio 36 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
10 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Guánica Municipio, 13 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1676 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 1,700 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 17.8306, -66.8996. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Guánica Municipio, PR 13 km (8 mi) S of here earthquakes near Guánica Municipio
Lajas Municipio, PR 22 km (14 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Lajas Municipio
Guayanilla Municipio, PR 22 km (14 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Guayanilla Municipio
Peñuelas Municipio, PR 28 km (18 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Peñuelas Municipio
Sabana Grande Municipio, PR 29 km (18 mi) S of here earthquakes near Sabana Grande Municipio
Yauco Municipio, PR 29 km (18 mi) S of here earthquakes near Yauco Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 15 km SSE of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.5 7 km ESE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.5 6 km ESE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.9 10 km SSE of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.9 1 km SSW of Palomas, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.4 0 km W of Indios, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.9 4 km S of Indios, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.6 9 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  9. 3.2 6 km WSW of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.2 4 km SSW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.1 0 km SSW of Guayanilla, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.7 1 km N of Guayanilla, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.4 3 km S of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.7 8 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.8 2 km SW of Indios, 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 70,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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