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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.4md

85 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico

· 45 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
45 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Barceloneta Municipio, 86 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 547 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 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 86,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 3,800× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,700× 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 4.1× 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 19.2343, -66.4650. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Barceloneta Municipio, PR 86 km (53 mi) N of here earthquakes near Barceloneta Municipio
Vega Baja Municipio, PR 87 km (54 mi) N of here earthquakes near Vega Baja Municipio
Dorado Municipio, PR 87 km (54 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Dorado Municipio
Manatí Municipio, PR 88 km (55 mi) N of here earthquakes near Manatí Municipio
Vega Alta Municipio, PR 90 km (56 mi) N of here earthquakes near Vega Alta Municipio
Toa Baja Municipio, PR 91 km (57 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Toa Baja Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.8 75 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico
  2. 3.2 75 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.2 89 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  4. 3.1 67 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico
  5. 3.2 73 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  6. 3.2 67 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  7. 3.0 68 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  8. 3.1 73 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  9. 3.3 72 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  10. 3.2 67 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  11. 3.9 69 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.9 66 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico
  13. 3.1 85 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  14. 3.3 71 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  15. 3.2 106 km N of Brenas, 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 4.8 on 2017-08-18 — it released about 120 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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