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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.5md

83 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico

· 22 km deep · released about 2.7 tons of TNT

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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 3.5 (md)
Depth
22 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Fajardo Municipio, 85 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 662 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 2.7 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 63,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,800× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.5 about 2.7 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 5.6× 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 19.1480, -65.6078. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Fajardo Municipio, PR 85 km (53 mi) N of here earthquakes near Fajardo Municipio
Loíza Municipio, PR 86 km (53 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Loíza Municipio
Luquillo Municipio, PR 87 km (54 mi) N of here earthquakes near Luquillo Municipio
Río Grande Municipio, PR 88 km (55 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Río Grande Municipio
Carolina Municipio, PR 92 km (57 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Carolina Municipio
San Juan Municipio, PR 94 km (59 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near San Juan 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. 3.3 85 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  2. 3.3 99 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.1 58 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico
  4. 3.8 113 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  5. 3.4 104 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  6. 3.3 104 km NNE of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  7. 3.5 74 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  8. 3.7 119 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  9. 3.6 127 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  10. 3.3 63 km N of Loíza, Puerto Rico
  11. 3.6 125 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  12. 3.3 77 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  13. 3.4 112 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  14. 3.4 60 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.9 53 km NNE of Luquillo, 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 4.8 on 2021-03-09 — it released about 89 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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