50 km ESE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands

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 1,600 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 6.7 210,000× the energy of this one
2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 9,400× the energy of this one
3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 6,700× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 3.1 about 1,600 lb of TNT
5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.7× 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 18.2420, -64.3286. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

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

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 2.9 65 km E of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands 22:29 UTC
2. 3.4 73 km ENE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands 12:11 UTC
3. 3.6 59 km ENE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands 01:27 UTC
4. 3.4 45 km ENE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands 15:34 UTC
5. 3.4 60 km NE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands 08:30 UTC
6. 3.0 26 km SSE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands 17:46 UTC
7. 3.7 56 km ESE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands 14:20 UTC
8. 3.4 84 km ESE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands 10:45 UTC
9. 3.4 63 km E of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands 01:47 UTC
10. 3.6 70 km ENE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands 22:59 UTC
11. 3.8 61 km NE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands 06:52 UTC
12. 3.9 32 km ENE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands 02:29 UTC
13. 3.4 55 km NE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands 04:53 UTC
14. 3.8 55 km NE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands 04:53 UTC
15. 3.8 69 km ESE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands 03:30 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 15:39 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 4.1 on 2019-10-11 — it released about 31 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
• Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
• ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

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