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M 3.8md

100 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico

Yes. A magnitude 3.8 earthquake was recorded 100 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico, at 5:13 am AST on 25 June 2025 (09:13 UTC), 35 km deep. 2 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

· 35 km deep · released about 8.4 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 3.8 (md)
Depth
35 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Dorado Municipio, 100 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 433 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

At this magnitude and depth, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 77 km (48 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 8.4 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 20,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 900× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 640× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.8 about 8.4 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 18× 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 4.8 on 2017-08-18 — about 29 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 6 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:

  1. 5.7 78 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico · 47 km WSW of this epicentre
  2. 5.5 64 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico · 49 km SW of this epicentre
  3. 5.4 106 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico · 24 km WNW of this epicentre
  4. 5.1 66 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico · 40 km SSW of this epicentre
  5. 5.1 92 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico · 48 km ESE 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 19.3716, -66.1610. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection from the epicentre
Dorado Municipio, PR 100 km (62 mi) S earthquakes near Dorado Municipio
Toa Baja Municipio, PR 102 km (63 mi) S earthquakes near Toa Baja Municipio
Cataño Municipio, PR 103 km (64 mi) S earthquakes near Cataño Municipio
Vega Baja Municipio, PR 105 km (65 mi) SSW earthquakes near Vega Baja Municipio
Loíza Municipio, PR 106 km (66 mi) SSE earthquakes near Loíza Municipio
Vega Alta Municipio, PR 106 km (66 mi) S earthquakes near Vega Alta Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.0 68 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.8 72 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.1 66 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico
  4. 3.0 67 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico
  5. 3.1 68 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico
  6. 3.1 74 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico
  7. 3.1 70 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.7 72 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico
  9. 3.0 64 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico
  10. 3.0 74 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  11. 3.3 107 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  12. 3.5 125 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  13. 3.4 126 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  14. 3.0 67 km NNE of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.8 80 km N of San Juan, 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.

On USGS

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