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M 3.4md

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

· 29 km deep · released about 1.8 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Culebra Municipio 90 kmFajardo Municipio 113 kmVieques 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 3.4 (md)
Depth
29 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Culebra Municipio, 90 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3005 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 1.8 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 95,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 4,300× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 3,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.4 about 1.8 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 3.7× more

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 18.8135, -64.6205. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Culebra Municipio, PR 90 km (56 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Culebra Municipio
Fajardo Municipio, PR 113 km (70 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Fajardo Municipio
Vieques Municipio, PR 115 km (71 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Vieques Municipio
Ceiba Municipio, PR 122 km (76 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Ceiba Municipio
Luquillo Municipio, PR 125 km (78 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Luquillo Municipio
Naguabo Municipio, PR 135 km (84 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Naguabo 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. 3.4 94 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  2. 3.1 90 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  3. 3.2 72 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  4. 3.3 85 km NE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  5. 3.7 104 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  6. 3.4 87 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  7. 3.8 95 km NE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  8. 3.6 104 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  9. 3.6 80 km NE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  10. 3.4 75 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  11. 3.4 41 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  12. 2.8 45 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  13. 3.2 76 km NE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  14. 3.1 63 km NE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  15. 3.1 77 km NE 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 4.7 on 2018-04-06 — it released about 95 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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