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M 4.0md

118 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico

· 116 km deep · released about 16 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 4.0 (md)
Depth
116 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Loíza Municipio, 119 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1276 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 16 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 11,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 480× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 340× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.0 about 16 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 33× 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 19.5000, -65.7440. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Loíza Municipio, PR 119 km (74 mi) N of here earthquakes near Loíza Municipio
San Juan Municipio, PR 125 km (77 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near San Juan Municipio
Cataño Municipio, PR 125 km (78 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Cataño Municipio
Toa Baja Municipio, PR 125 km (78 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Toa Baja Municipio
Dorado Municipio, PR 126 km (79 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Dorado Municipio
Vega Alta Municipio, PR 134 km (83 mi) NNE 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

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

  1. 3.3 129 km NNE of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  2. 3.5 137 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.9 136 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  4. 3.2 127 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  5. 3.8 146 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  6. 3.4 144 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  7. 3.8 134 km N of Su?rez, Puerto Rico
  8. 3.4 119 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  9. 3.8 121 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  10. 3.3 153 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  11. 3.9 Puerto Rico region
  12. 3.7 139 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  13. 4.1 139 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  14. 4.1 132 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  15. 4.0 109 km N of Suárez, 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 4.3 on 2022-12-25 — it released about 3.2 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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