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M 2.6Md

17 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands

· 40 km deep · released about 240 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.6 (Md)
Depth
40 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Culebra Municipio, 55 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3518 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 240 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 63,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 45,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 240 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 18.4839, -64.8180. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Culebra Municipio, PR 55 km (34 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Culebra Municipio
Vieques Municipio, PR 76 km (47 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Vieques Municipio
Fajardo Municipio, PR 82 km (51 mi) E of here earthquakes near Fajardo Municipio
Ceiba Municipio, PR 89 km (55 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Ceiba Municipio
Luquillo Municipio, PR 95 km (59 mi) E of here earthquakes near Luquillo Municipio
Naguabo Municipio, PR 102 km (63 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Naguabo Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.4 40 km ENE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  2. 3.2 40 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  3. 2.7 10 km WSW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  4. 3.1 64 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  5. 3.1 8 km SE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  6. 2.9 17 km ESE of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.3 58 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  8. 2.2 22 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  9. 2.8 64 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  10. 2.7 41 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  11. 3.0 25 km E of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  12. 3.0 Virgin Islands
  13. 2.0 27 km NW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  14. 2.8 27 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  15. 2.5 11 km SE 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.

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