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M 2.9Md

100 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 99 kmFajardo Municipio 100 kmLuquillo Municipio 108 kmRío Grande Municipio 112 kmCeiba Municipio 115 kmLoíza Municipio 115 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, 99 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3461 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 19.2105, -65.2023. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Culebra Municipio, PR 99 km (61 mi) N of here earthquakes near Culebra Municipio
Fajardo Municipio, PR 100 km (62 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Fajardo Municipio
Luquillo Municipio, PR 108 km (67 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Luquillo Municipio
Río Grande Municipio, PR 112 km (70 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Río Grande Municipio
Ceiba Municipio, PR 115 km (72 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Ceiba Municipio
Loíza Municipio, PR 115 km (72 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

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

  1. 2.4 81 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  2. 2.1 92 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  3. 2.6 97 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  4. 2.0 95 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  5. 2.3 103 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  6. 2.0 56 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  7. 3.4 117 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  8. 2.2 83 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico
  9. 2.4 93 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  10. 2.6 79 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  11. 2.3 78 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  12. 2.7 77 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  13. 3.4 84 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  14. 2.2 89 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  15. 1.9 91 km N 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 4.3 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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