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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.6md

17 km NW of Rincón, Puerto Rico

· 17 km deep · released about 4.5 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.6 (md)
Depth
17 km below the surface
Felt
13 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Measured shaking
intensity III (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Rincón Municipio, 18 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 886 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 13 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 4.5 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 38,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,700× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,200× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.6 about 4.5 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 9.4× 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 18.4353, -67.3868. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Rincón Municipio, PR 18 km (11 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 22 km (14 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 26 km (16 mi) W of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio
Añasco Municipio, PR 32 km (20 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio
Moca Municipio, PR 33 km (21 mi) W of here earthquakes near Moca Municipio
Isabela Municipio, PR 40 km (25 mi) W of here earthquakes near Isabela Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.0 24 km NW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  2. 3.0 30 km NW of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.1 52 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  4. 3.1 3 km NNE of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
  5. 3.2 46 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  6. 3.2 12 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  7. 3.3 20 km SW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  8. 3.0 48 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.8 23 km WNW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  10. 3.6 39 km NW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  11. 3.1 48 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  12. 3.4 37 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  13. 3.0 40 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  14. 4.0 48 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  15. 3.3 48 km NW of San Antonio, 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 2017-10-01 — it released about 13 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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