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M 4.3Md

155 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands

· 39 km deep · released about 43 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 4.3 (Md)
Depth
39 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Tsunami
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Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3511 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 43 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 4,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 180× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.3 about 43 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 89× 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 19.6709, -64.3600. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.1 135 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  2. 3.4 109 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  3. 2.5 107 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  4. 3.5 131 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  5. 3.0 120 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  6. 3.6 135 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  7. 3.7 176 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  8. 3.4 152 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  9. 3.4 110 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  10. 3.4 117 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  11. 3.7 138 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  12. 3.6 171 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  13. 3.4 170 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  14. 3.1 109 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  15. 3.0 106 km NNE of Cruz Bay, 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.6 on 2016-01-15 — it released about 2.8 times the energy of this one.

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

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