Puerto Rico region

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 8.7 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 19,000× the energy of this one
2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 870× the energy of this one
3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 620× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 3.8 about 8.7 tons of TNT
5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 18× 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 19.6626, -65.8251. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 3.9 123 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico 23:58 UTC
2. 3.9 111 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico 13:54 UTC
3. 3.4 104 km NNE of San Juan, Puerto Rico 02:31 UTC
4. 3.8 129 km N of Su?rez, Puerto Rico 11:46 UTC
5. 3.5 124 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico 00:56 UTC
6. 3.1 Puerto Rico region 22:36 UTC
7. 3.6 132 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico 06:05 UTC
8. 4.0 111 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico 22:18 UTC
9. 3.3 95 km NNE of Suárez, Puerto Rico 01:38 UTC
10. 3.8 115 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico 00:29 UTC
11. 3.7 120 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico 07:59 UTC
12. 3.8 127 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico 11:55 UTC
13. 3.4 104 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico 05:34 UTC
14. 3.9 144 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico 22:46 UTC
15. 3.4 125 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico 05:17 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 16:34 UTC. 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 4.4 on 2023-02-28 — it released about 7.9 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

• The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
• Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
• ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

QuakeIndex does not issue warnings. For earthquake early warning see ShakeAlert.