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M 3.2md

26 km W of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico

· 2.8 km deep · released about 1.1 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 3.2 (md)
Depth
2.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Cabo Rojo Municipio, 28 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1520 days ago

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

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1.1 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 150,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 6,900× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 4,900× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 1.1 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2.3× 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 18.0535, -67.4372. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Cabo Rojo Municipio, PR 28 km (17 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Cabo Rojo Municipio
Hormigueros Municipio, PR 35 km (22 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Hormigueros Municipio
Rincón Municipio, PR 37 km (23 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Añasco Municipio, PR 41 km (26 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio
San Germán Municipio, PR 43 km (27 mi) W of here earthquakes near San Germán Municipio
Lajas Municipio, PR 43 km (27 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Lajas Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 Puerto Rico region
  2. 2.4 7 km ESE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.9 5 km SSE of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.2 4 km E of Hormigueros, Puerto Rico
  5. 1.9 4 km ENE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  6. 1.7 4 km ENE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  7. 3.0 26 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  8. 3.0 1 km NE of La Playa, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.1 5 km SSW of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.0 7 km ESE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.3 10 km SW of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.2 7 km WSW of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.8 9 km SSW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  14. 1.9 6 km ENE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.2 3 km SE of La Parguera, 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 5.3 on 2020-07-03 — it released about 1,200 times the energy of this one.

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

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