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M 4.0md

128 km NNE of Suárez, Puerto Rico

Yes. A magnitude 4.0 earthquake was recorded 128 km NNE of Suárez, Puerto Rico, at 11:41 pm AST on 25 December 2024 (03:41 UTC), 87 km deep.

· 87 km deep · released about 16 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 4.0 (md)
Depth
87 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 613 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon.

At this magnitude and depth, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 44 km (27 mi) from the epicentre. Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 16 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 11,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 480× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 340× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.0 about 16 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 33× 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km since 2016 was M 4.7 on 2024-11-09 — about 10 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 2 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km:

  1. 5.1 122 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico · 34 km ESE of this epicentre
  2. 5.1 92 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico · 36 km SSW of this epicentre

Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.

Where

Epicentre 19.5616, -65.5923. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.6 99 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  2. 3.5 119 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.7 139 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  4. 3.4 131 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  5. 4.0 135 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  6. 3.4 114 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  7. 3.4 140 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  8. 3.1 91 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  9. 3.7 131 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  10. 3.3 114 km NNE of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  11. 3.3 133 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  12. 3.4 130 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  13. 3.8 141 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  14. 3.7 137 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  15. 3.8 121 km NNE of Vieques, 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.

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