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M 4.0md

52 km E of Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands

· 5.0 km deep · released about 13 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 4.0 (md)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Culebra Municipio, 135 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2059 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 2 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 13 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 13,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 580× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 410× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.0 about 13 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 28× 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 17.6388, -64.2616. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Culebra Municipio, PR 135 km (84 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Culebra Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.0 48 km ENE of Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands
  2. 2.7 60 km ENE of Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands
  3. 4.0 78 km ENE of Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands
  4. 3.0 60 km NE of Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands
  5. 3.1 63 km E of Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands
  6. 3.1 30 km SSE of Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
  7. 3.3 63 km ENE of Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands
  8. 3.1 76 km ENE of Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands
  9. 2.7 63 km ENE of Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands
  10. 2.7 22 km NNE of Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands
  11. 2.6 60 km NE of Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands
  12. 3.8 40 km SE of Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands
  13. 3.8 54 km ENE of Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
  14. 3.7 66 km E of Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
  15. 3.4 63 km E of Saint Croix, 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 4.1 on 2017-10-03 — it released about 1.6 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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