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M 3.2md

10 km W of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico

· 17 km deep · released about 1.1 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Cabo Rojo Municipio 14 kmHormigueros Municipio 19 kmSan Germán Municipio 26 kmLajas Municipio 28 kmAñasco Municipio 29 kmRincón Municipio 30 kmAguada Municipio 35 kmSabana Grande Municipio 36 kmLas Marías Municipio 37 km
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When
Magnitude
M 3.2 (md)
Depth
17 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Cabo Rojo Municipio, 14 km SE
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 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 18.0748, -67.2847. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Cabo Rojo Municipio, PR 14 km (9 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Cabo Rojo Municipio
Hormigueros Municipio, PR 19 km (12 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Hormigueros Municipio
San Germán Municipio, PR 26 km (16 mi) W of here earthquakes near San Germán Municipio
Lajas Municipio, PR 28 km (17 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Lajas Municipio
Añasco Municipio, PR 29 km (18 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Añasco Municipio
Rincón Municipio, PR 30 km (18 mi) S of here earthquakes near Rincón 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. 1.8 5 km ESE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.9 27 km SW of Stella, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.5 10 km S of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.0 3 km SW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.2 1 km W of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.3 4 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.4 1 km WNW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.7 2 km SSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.0 1 km W of Lluveras, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.0 4 km SSE of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.1 2 km W of Fuig, Puerto Rico
  12. 3.3 21 km WNW of Rincón, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.5 7 km SSE of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.3 1 km NNE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.2 4 km SSE of Maria Antonia, 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 5.9 on 2020-01-11 — it released about 9,800 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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