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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.8md

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

· 35 km deep · released about 14 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Culebra Municipio 80 kmFajardo Municipio 88 kmLuquillo Municipio 98 kmCeiba Municipio 102 kmRío Grande Municipio 104 kmVieques Municipio 105 kmLoíza Municipio 111 kmNaguabo Municipio 113 kmCanóvanas Municipio 114 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 1.8 (md)
Depth
35 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Culebra Municipio, 80 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3399 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 14 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,100,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 790,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 70× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 14 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 19.0093, -65.0705. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Culebra Municipio, PR 80 km (50 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Culebra Municipio
Fajardo Municipio, PR 88 km (55 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Fajardo Municipio
Luquillo Municipio, PR 98 km (61 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Luquillo Municipio
Ceiba Municipio, PR 102 km (63 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Ceiba Municipio
Río Grande Municipio, PR 104 km (65 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Río Grande Municipio
Vieques Municipio, PR 105 km (66 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Vieques Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 102 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  2. 1.5 35 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  3. 2.4 54 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  4. 2.1 68 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  5. 2.9 102 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  6. 2.7 68 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  7. 2.3 93 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  8. 2.8 86 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  9. 2.1 42 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  10. 2.1 88 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  11. 2.0 68 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.7 62 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico
  13. 2.5 117 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  14. 3.1 Virgin Islands
  15. 2.4 75 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.3 on 2016-09-04 — it released about 6,200 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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