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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.4md

16 km NW of Rincón, Puerto Rico

· 143 km deep · released about 2 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 3.4 (md)
Depth
143 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Rincón Municipio, 17 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 831 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 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 83,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 3,700× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,600× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.4 about 2 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 4.3× 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 18.4663, -67.3387. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Rincón Municipio, PR 17 km (11 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 19 km (12 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 21 km (13 mi) W of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio
Moca Municipio, PR 29 km (18 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Moca Municipio
Añasco Municipio, PR 30 km (18 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio
Isabela Municipio, PR 34 km (21 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

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

  1. 2.9 16 km NNE of Isabela, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.9 35 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.1 27 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  4. 3.2 30 km W of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  5. 3.1 47 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  6. 3.6 50 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.3 21 km WNW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.8 3 km NW of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.1 2 km ESE of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  10. 3.0 20 km NNE of Isabela, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.3 7 km ESE of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.8 3 km WNW of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
  13. 3.2 48 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico
  14. 3.2 37 km WNW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.9 19 km SW of Stella, 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 30 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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