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M 3.4md

20 km SW of Stella, Puerto Rico

· 15 km deep · released about 1.8 tons 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 3.4 (md)
Depth
15 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Rincón Municipio, 22 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1408 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1.8 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 95,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 4,300× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 3,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.4 about 1.8 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 3.7× 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 18.1743, -67.3610. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Rincón Municipio, PR 22 km (13 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Hormigueros Municipio, PR 26 km (16 mi) W of here earthquakes near Hormigueros Municipio
Añasco Municipio, PR 27 km (17 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio
Cabo Rojo Municipio, PR 27 km (17 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Cabo Rojo Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 29 km (18 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
San Germán Municipio, PR 35 km (22 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near San Germán Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 2 km SE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.3 Puerto Rico region
  3. 2.6 4 km SSW of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.5 3 km WSW of Gu?nica, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.3 3 km SSW of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.5 6 km W of Fuig, Puerto Rico
  7. 1.6 6 km SE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  8. 3.0 3 km NE of Las Marias, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.6 Mona Passage
  10. 2.3 7 km ESE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.9 6 km WSW of Fuig, Puerto Rico
  12. 1.8 4 km SSW of Palmarejo, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.4 6 km WSW of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
  14. 1.9 Puerto Rico region
  15. 1.9 4 km SE of La Parguera, 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 5.3 on 2020-07-03 — it released about 760 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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