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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.2md

2 km ESE of Sabana Hoyos, Puerto Rico

· 118 km deep · released about 2,000 lb 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 3.2 (md)
Depth
118 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity I
Nearest
Barceloneta Municipio, 6 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 455 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 2,000 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 6.7 170,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 7,700× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 5,400× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 2,000 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2.1× 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 18.4245, -66.5965. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Barceloneta Municipio, PR 6 km (4 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Barceloneta Municipio
Florida Municipio, PR 7 km (4 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Florida Municipio
Arecibo Municipio, PR 8 km (5 mi) E of here earthquakes near Arecibo Municipio
Manatí Municipio, PR 11 km (7 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Manatí Municipio
Ciales Municipio, PR 17 km (10 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Ciales Municipio
Utuado Municipio, PR 20 km (13 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Utuado Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.3 2 km ENE of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.8 2 km NE of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.7 3 km ENE of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.2 2 km WNW of Guayanilla, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.4 2 km ENE of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.5 2 km ENE of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.1 4 km N of Orocovis, Puerto Rico
  8. 1.9 6 km ENE of Orocovis, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.4 3 km NNE of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico
  10. 1.6 1 km WNW of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.4 1 km W of Río Cañas Abajo, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.3 3 km SE of Las Marías, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.6 18 km NNE of Isabela, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.2 2 km NNE of Yauco, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.3 4 km NE of Maricao, 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 5.6 on 2020-01-07 — it released about 3,800 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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