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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.2md

173 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands

· 40 km deep · released about 1,800 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.2 (md)
Depth
40 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2608 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 1,800 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 8,200× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 5,800× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 1,800 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.9× 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 19.8968, -65.1470. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.0 151 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  2. 2.7 Puerto Rico region
  3. 3.5 146 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  4. 3.3 135 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  5. 3.8 145 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  6. 3.0 160 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  7. 3.2 130 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  8. 3.3 156 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  9. 3.1 138 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  10. 3.1 133 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  11. 3.2 137 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  12. 2.8 126 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  13. 3.0 148 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  14. 3.2 135 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  15. 3.1 144 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico

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 4.9 on 2018-11-14 — it released about 370 times the energy of this one.

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

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