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M 3.2md

37 km WNW of Rincón, Puerto Rico

· 8.3 km deep · released about 1,700 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.2 (md)
Depth
8.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Rincón Municipio, 37 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 787 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 1,700 lb 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 6.7 200,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 8,800× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 6,200× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 1,700 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.8× 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 18.4528, -67.5807. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Rincón Municipio, PR 37 km (23 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Rincón Municipio
Aguada Municipio, PR 43 km (26 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Aguada Municipio
Aguadilla Municipio, PR 46 km (29 mi) W of here earthquakes near Aguadilla Municipio
Añasco Municipio, PR 51 km (32 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio
Mayagüez Municipio, PR 52 km (32 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Mayagüez Municipio
Moca Municipio, PR 54 km (33 mi) W of here earthquakes near Moca Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.9 21 km NW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  2. 3.4 19 km SSW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.5 55 km ESE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  4. 3.4 14 km WNW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  5. 3.1 44 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  6. 3.7 47 km E of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
  7. 2.9 24 km WNW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.9 11 km NW of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico
  9. 3.2 8 km SSW of La Playa, Puerto Rico
  10. 3.6 37 km W of Stella, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.6 14 km WSW of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
  12. 3.1 35 km NW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.8 24 km SW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  14. 3.4 16 km WNW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.8 17 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 70 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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