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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.5Md

59 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands

· 25 km deep · released about 170 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Culebra Municipio 71 kmFajardo Municipio 85 kmLuquillo Municipio 97 kmVieques Municipio 97 kmCeiba Municipio 98 kmRío Grande Municipio 104 kmNaguabo Municipio 110 kmLoíza Municipio 114 kmCanóvanas Municipio 115 km
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 2.5 (Md)
Depth
25 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Culebra Municipio, 71 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3590 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 170 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 89,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 63,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 5.6× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.5 about 170 lb of TNT

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 18.8773, -64.9653. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Culebra Municipio, PR 71 km (44 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Culebra Municipio
Fajardo Municipio, PR 85 km (53 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Fajardo Municipio
Luquillo Municipio, PR 97 km (60 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Luquillo Municipio
Vieques Municipio, PR 97 km (60 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Vieques Municipio
Ceiba Municipio, PR 98 km (61 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Ceiba Municipio
Río Grande Municipio, PR 104 km (65 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Río Grande 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. 3.1 85 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  2. 2.7 19 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  3. 2.5 79 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  4. 3.2 91 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  5. 3.2 85 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  6. 2.7 96 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.5 95 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  8. 2.7 54 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  9. 2.5 92 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  10. 3.1 89 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  11. 3.0 61 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  12. 3.0 85 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  13. 4.0 84 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.7 88 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  15. 2.8 73 km N of Culebra, 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 4.0 on 2016-06-29 — it released about 180 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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