46 km ENE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands

2017-04-29 11:12 UTC · 32 km deep · released about 82 lb of TNT

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: 2017-04-29 11:12 UTC
Magnitude: M 2.3 (md)
Depth: 32 km below the surface
Felt: no reports yet
Nearest: Culebra Municipio, 98 km WSW
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS 3438 days ago · we first saw it 3438 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 82 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 180,000× the energy of this one
Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 130,000× the energy of this one
Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 12× the energy of this one
This earthquake M 2.3 about 82 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

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Epicentre 18.5408, -64.4078. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

Place	Distance	Direction
Culebra Municipio, PR	98 km (61 mi)	ENE of here	earthquakes near Culebra Municipio
Vieques Municipio, PR	118 km (73 mi)	ENE of here	earthquakes near Vieques Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

2.5 75 km NE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands 01:39 UTC
2.6 78 km NE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands 01:36 UTC
2.0 69 km NE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands 23:53 UTC
1.9 66 km NE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands 13:09 UTC
2.1 49 km ENE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands 05:55 UTC
2.1 69 km NE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands 00:58 UTC
2.3 70 km NE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands 10:56 UTC
2.5 65 km ENE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands 10:02 UTC
2.1 62 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands 09:54 UTC
2.2 81 km NE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands 22:10 UTC
3.1 65 km ENE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands 15:51 UTC
2.2 83 km NE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands 12:00 UTC
2.8 48 km ENE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands 07:07 UTC
2.9 90 km NE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands 17:17 UTC
2.9 77 km NE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands 06:27 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 16:09 UTC. QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

On USGS

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