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M 3.4md

106 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico

Yes. A magnitude 3.4 earthquake was recorded 106 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico, at 9:59 pm AST on 19 March 2025 (01:59 UTC), 75 km deep. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

· 75 km deep · released about 2.2 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
75 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Fajardo Municipio, 105 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 601 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 it was probably too small to be felt, even directly above it. 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 2.2 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 78,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 3,500× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,500× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.4 about 2.2 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 4.6× 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 4.7 on 2020-11-26 — about 80 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 4 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km:

  1. 5.1 122 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico · 19 km ENE of this epicentre
  2. 5.1 92 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico · 28 km WSW of this epicentre
  3. 5.0 109 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands · 47 km E of this epicentre
  4. 5.0 73 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico · 35 km S 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 19.3195, -65.4657. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection from the epicentre
Fajardo Municipio, PR 105 km (65 mi) S earthquakes near Fajardo Municipio
Luquillo Municipio, PR 109 km (68 mi) SSW earthquakes near Luquillo Municipio
Loíza Municipio, PR 109 km (68 mi) SSW earthquakes near Loíza Municipio
Río Grande Municipio, PR 111 km (69 mi) SSW earthquakes near Río Grande Municipio
Culebra Municipio, PR 112 km (69 mi) S earthquakes near Culebra Municipio
Carolina Municipio, PR 115 km (72 mi) SSW earthquakes near Carolina Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.5 66 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  2. 3.5 76 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  3. 3.4 79 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico
  4. 3.7 107 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  5. 3.7 122 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  6. 3.4 133 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  7. 3.8 102 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  8. 3.5 131 km N of Suárez, Puerto Rico
  9. 3.5 141 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  10. 3.5 138 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  11. 3.6 96 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  12. 3.6 99 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  13. 3.5 119 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  14. 3.6 90 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico
  15. 3.7 139 km NNE of Vieques, 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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