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M 3.5Md

6 km ENE of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands

· 103 km deep · released about 2.7 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Culebra Municipio 46 kmVieques Municipio 65 kmFajardo Municipio 76 kmCeiba Municipio 80 kmLuquillo Municipio 89 kmNaguabo Municipio 93 kmRío Grande Municipio 98 kmHumacao Municipio 100 kmCanóvanas Municipio 107 km
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When
Magnitude
M 3.5 (Md)
Depth
103 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Culebra Municipio, 46 km W
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 2.7 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 63,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,800× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.5 about 2.7 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 5.6× 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 18.3595, -64.8707. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Culebra Municipio, PR 46 km (29 mi) E of here earthquakes near Culebra Municipio
Vieques Municipio, PR 65 km (40 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Vieques Municipio
Fajardo Municipio, PR 76 km (47 mi) E of here earthquakes near Fajardo Municipio
Ceiba Municipio, PR 80 km (50 mi) E of here earthquakes near Ceiba Municipio
Luquillo Municipio, PR 89 km (55 mi) E of here earthquakes near Luquillo Municipio
Naguabo Municipio, PR 93 km (58 mi) E of here earthquakes near Naguabo Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.3 39 km NNE of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  2. 3.2 37 km NNE of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  3. 2.3 29 km SSW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  4. 3.2 5 km W of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  5. 2.8 21 km E of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  6. 2.9 31 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  7. 3.2 22 km S of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  8. 2.8 29 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  9. 2.5 27 km SSE of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.8 24 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  11. 2.0 20 km S of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  12. 3.1 26 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  13. 3.0 6 km WSW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  14. 3.2 29 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  15. 2.4 35 km NNW 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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