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M 3.8md

Mona Passage

· 40 km deep · released about 7.3 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Aguadilla Municipio 81 kmIsabela Municipio 87 kmAguada Municipio 91 kmRincón Municipio 93 kmQuebradillas Municipio 94 kmMoca Municipio 95 kmCamuy Municipio 100 kmAñasco Municipio 102 kmSan Sebastián Municipio 104 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 3.8 (md)
Depth
40 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Aguadilla Municipio, 81 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1338 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 7.3 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 23,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 730× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.8 about 7.3 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 15× 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 19.1553, -67.4420. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 81 km (51 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio
Isabela Municipio, PR 87 km (54 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Isabela Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 91 km (56 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Rincón Municipio, PR 93 km (58 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Quebradillas Municipio, PR 94 km (58 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Quebradillas Municipio
Moca Municipio, PR 95 km (59 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Moca Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.2 42 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  2. 3.2 52 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.5 74 km NW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  4. 3.9 61 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  5. 3.0 68 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  6. 3.7 77 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  7. 3.1 70 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  8. 4.2 80 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  9. 3.0 40 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  10. 3.3 82 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico
  11. 3.4 Mona Passage
  12. 3.4 44 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  13. 3.3 59 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  14. 3.5 91 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  15. 3.8 75 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

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 6.0 on 2019-09-24 — it released about 2,100 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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