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M 3.5md

Puerto Rico region

· 36 km deep · released about 2.8 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.5 (md)
Depth
36 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Loíza Municipio, 124 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1616 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 2.8 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 61,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,700× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,900× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.5 about 2.8 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 5.8× 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 19.4995, -65.5611. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Loíza Municipio, PR 124 km (77 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Loíza Municipio
San Juan Municipio, PR 131 km (81 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near San Juan Municipio
Cataño Municipio, PR 133 km (82 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Cataño Municipio
Toa Baja Municipio, PR 134 km (83 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Toa Baja Municipio
Dorado Municipio, PR 136 km (84 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Dorado Municipio
Vega Alta Municipio, PR 144 km (89 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Vega Alta Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.6 103 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  2. 4.3 113 km NNE of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.9 126 km NNE of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  4. 3.9 130 km NNE of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  5. 3.8 93 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  6. 3.9 123 km NNE of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  7. 3.6 97 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  8. 3.7 116 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  9. 3.4 111 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  10. 3.4 132 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  11. 3.6 111 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  12. 3.6 140 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  13. 3.7 82 km NNE of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  14. 3.8 118 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  15. 3.3 110 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands

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 4.5 on 2018-03-06 — it released about 31 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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