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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.4ml

8 km S of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico

· 10 km deep · released about 1.9 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.4 (ml)
Depth
10 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Measured shaking
intensity III (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Peñuelas Municipio, 12 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1511 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 1.9 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 89,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 4,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,800× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.4 about 1.9 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 4× 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 17.9192, -66.7079. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Peñuelas Municipio, PR 12 km (8 mi) S of here earthquakes near Peñuelas Municipio
Guayanilla Municipio, PR 14 km (8 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Guayanilla Municipio
Ponce Municipio, PR 14 km (9 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Ponce Municipio
Guánica Municipio, PR 23 km (14 mi) E of here earthquakes near Guánica Municipio
Yauco Municipio, PR 24 km (15 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Yauco Municipio
Juana Díaz Municipio, PR 25 km (15 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Juana Díaz Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.4 9 km SSW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.6 8 km SSW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico
  3. 4.2 13 km SSW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.6 Puerto Rico region
  5. 2.4 2 km WSW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.8 6 km SE of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.2 2 km SW of Palomas, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.8 6 km SSW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.7 2 km S of Indios, Puerto Rico
  10. 3.1 5 km SSW of Indios, Puerto Rico
  11. 2.6 2 km ESE of Indios, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.6 8 km S of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.9 7 km S of Guánica, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.9 6 km SSE of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.5 11 km SSE of Ponce, 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 6.4 on 2020-01-07 — it released about 32,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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