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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.9Md

79 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands

· 38 km deep · released about 680 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Culebra Municipio 79 kmFajardo Municipio 83 kmLuquillo Municipio 92 kmRío Grande Municipio 97 kmCeiba Municipio 98 kmLoíza Municipio 103 kmVieques Municipio 104 kmCanóvanas Municipio 107 kmNaguabo Municipio 108 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 2.9 (Md)
Depth
38 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Culebra Municipio, 79 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3414 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 680 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 22,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 16,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1.4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.9 about 680 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 19.0245, -65.1782. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Culebra Municipio, PR 79 km (49 mi) N of here earthquakes near Culebra Municipio
Fajardo Municipio, PR 83 km (52 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Fajardo Municipio
Luquillo Municipio, PR 92 km (57 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Luquillo Municipio
Río Grande Municipio, PR 97 km (60 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Río Grande Municipio
Ceiba Municipio, PR 98 km (61 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Ceiba Municipio
Loíza Municipio, PR 103 km (64 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Loíza Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.7 98 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  2. 3.6 97 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  3. 3.5 102 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  4. 3.3 101 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  5. 3.2 93 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  6. 3.2 98 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  7. 2.4 96 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  8. 3.3 97 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  9. 3.2 93 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  10. 3.1 97 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  11. 3.4 90 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  12. 3.3 93 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  13. 3.1 98 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  14. 4.0 107 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  15. 3.3 98 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.3 on 2016-09-04 — it released about 130 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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