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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.8md

115 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico

· 34 km deep · released about 6.8 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Loíza Municipio 116 kmToa Baja Municipio 119 kmDorado Municipio 119 kmCataño Municipio 119 kmSan Juan Municipio 120 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
34 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity I
Nearest
Loíza Municipio, 116 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 975 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 6.8 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 25,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,100× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 790× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.8 about 6.8 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 14× 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 19.4931, -65.9281. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Loíza Municipio, PR 116 km (72 mi) N of here earthquakes near Loíza Municipio
Toa Baja Municipio, PR 119 km (74 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Toa Baja Municipio
Dorado Municipio, PR 119 km (74 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Dorado Municipio
Cataño Municipio, PR 119 km (74 mi) N of here earthquakes near Cataño Municipio
San Juan Municipio, PR 120 km (75 mi) N of here earthquakes near San Juan Municipio
Vega Alta Municipio, PR 125 km (78 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

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

  1. 3.4 112 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  2. 3.2 105 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.3 88 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico
  4. 3.6 105 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  5. 3.9 123 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  6. 3.6 123 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  7. 3.4 74 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.8 69 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  9. 3.7 97 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico
  10. 3.6 108 km NNE of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  11. 3.6 119 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  12. 3.8 127 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  13. 3.5 75 km NNE of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  14. 3.6 124 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  15. 3.6 118 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 4.4 on 2016-10-23 — it released about 8.8 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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