133 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico

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 5.9 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 29,000× the energy of this one
2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,300× the energy of this one
3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 900× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 3.7 about 5.9 tons of TNT
5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 12× 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 19.6673, -66.4756. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 3.6 124 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico 13:08 UTC
2. 3.1 90 km N of Arecibo, Puerto Rico 02:33 UTC
3. 3.2 85 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico 01:03 UTC
4. 3.1 92 km N of Arecibo, Puerto Rico 21:38 UTC
5. 3.0 86 km N of Arecibo, Puerto Rico 16:16 UTC
6. 3.4 92 km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico 07:17 UTC
7. 3.1 110 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico 00:31 UTC
8. 5.1 155 km N of Arecibo, Puerto Rico 14:18 UTC
9. 3.5 118 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico 13:14 UTC
10. 3.9 104 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico 00:24 UTC
11. 3.5 125 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico 00:08 UTC
12. 3.4 126 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico 00:06 UTC
13. 3.2 88 km N of Arecibo, Puerto Rico 04:23 UTC
14. 3.6 127 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico 13:30 UTC
15. 3.4 101 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico 04:53 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 12:05 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 2016-10-23 — it released about 10 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

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