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M 3.0Md

21 km ENE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands

· 12 km deep · released about 950 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Culebra Municipio 75 kmVieques Municipio 93 kmFajardo Municipio 104 kmCeiba Municipio 109 kmLuquillo Municipio 117 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 3.0 (Md)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
3 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Culebra Municipio, 75 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3586 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 3 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 950 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 16,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 11,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 950 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 18.3873, -64.5992. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Culebra Municipio, PR 75 km (47 mi) E of here earthquakes near Culebra Municipio
Vieques Municipio, PR 93 km (58 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Vieques Municipio
Fajardo Municipio, PR 104 km (65 mi) E of here earthquakes near Fajardo Municipio
Ceiba Municipio, PR 109 km (68 mi) E of here earthquakes near Ceiba Municipio
Luquillo Municipio, PR 117 km (73 mi) E of here earthquakes near Luquillo Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.2 63 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  2. 1.8 34 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  3. 2.3 60 km ENE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  4. 1.8 32 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  5. 2.9 28 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  6. 2.0 Puerto Rico region
  7. 2.3 68 km ENE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  8. 2.1 9 km S of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  9. 2.0 64 km ENE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  10. 2.0 16 km WNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  11. 2.3 55 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  12. 2.4 23 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  13. 3.0 59 km NE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  14. 2.1 36 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  15. 3.3 20 km S of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands

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.

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