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M 4.2md

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

· 42 km deep · released about 25 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 4.2 (md)
Depth
42 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Culebra Municipio, 155 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2150 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon. 2 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 25 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 6,700× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 300× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 210× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.2 about 25 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 53× 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 19.3763, -64.3438. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Culebra Municipio, PR 155 km (96 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Culebra Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.9 96 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  2. 3.7 108 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  3. 3.6 113 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  4. 3.4 78 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  5. 3.4 94 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  6. 3.2 108 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  7. 3.3 106 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  8. 4.0 125 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  9. 3.9 101 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  10. 3.8 114 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  11. 3.6 139 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  12. 3.7 107 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  13. 3.9 150 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  14. 3.6 110 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  15. 3.0 123 km NNE 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 5.0 on 2019-10-06 — it released about 16 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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