98 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands

2017-08-22 05:14 UTC · 24 km deep · released about 150 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: 2017-08-22 05:14 UTC
Magnitude: M 2.5 (md)
Depth: 24 km below the surface
Felt: no reports yet
Nearest: Culebra Municipio, 128 km SW
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS 3323 days ago · we first saw it 3323 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 150 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 99,000× the energy of this one
Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 70,000× the energy of this one
Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 6.2× the energy of this one
This earthquake M 2.5 about 150 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 19.1745, -64.4848. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

Place	Distance	Direction
Culebra Municipio, PR	128 km (80 mi)	NE of here	earthquakes near Culebra Municipio
Fajardo Municipio, PR	146 km (90 mi)	NE of here	earthquakes near Fajardo Municipio
Vieques Municipio, PR	154 km (95 mi)	NE of here	earthquakes near Vieques Municipio
Ceiba Municipio, PR	157 km (98 mi)	NE of here	earthquakes near Ceiba Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

3.7 97 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands 21:41 UTC
3.6 81 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands 08:47 UTC
3.4 63 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands 01:05 UTC
3.6 119 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands 23:20 UTC
3.6 75 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands 02:23 UTC
4.2 72 km NE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands 13:41 UTC
3.0 88 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands 00:17 UTC
3.4 136 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands 21:56 UTC
2.6 58 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands 14:50 UTC
3.4 96 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands 19:58 UTC
3.3 88 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands 20:57 UTC
2.8 100 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands 07:53 UTC
2.5 100 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands 17:41 UTC
2.6 112 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands 17:26 UTC
2.2 81 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands 09:55 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 18:20 UTC. 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 4.6 on 2016-01-15 — it released about 1,600 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
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ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

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