Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist
M 3.1Md
145 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
- When
- Magnitude
- M 3.1 (Md)
- Depth
- 30 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3504 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 1,300 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.1 would have released about 32 times as much.
- Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 250,000× the energy of this one
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 11,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 7,900× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 3.1 about 1,300 lb of TNT
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.4× 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 19.6235, -65.2471. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Aftershocks so far
38 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.
- 2.8 130 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
- 3.4 Puerto Rico region
- 3.3 105 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
- 3.2 96 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
- 3.1 104 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
- 3.4 122 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
- 3.3 123 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
- 2.8 117 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
- 3.1 98 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
- 3.5 134 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
- 3.4 130 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
- 3.6 135 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
- 3.4 138 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
- 3.4 102 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
- 3.4 122 km N 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.
On USGS
- The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
- Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
- ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one
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