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M 3.9md

101 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands

· 24 km deep · released about 12 tons of TNT

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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 3.9 (md)
Depth
24 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity I
Nearest
Culebra Municipio, 117 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1984 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 12 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 14,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 620× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 440× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.9 about 12 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 26× 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 19.2471, -64.7765. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Culebra Municipio, PR 117 km (72 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Culebra Municipio
Fajardo Municipio, PR 128 km (80 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Fajardo Municipio
Luquillo Municipio, PR 139 km (86 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Luquillo Municipio
Ceiba Municipio, PR 142 km (88 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Ceiba Municipio
Río Grande Municipio, PR 145 km (90 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Río Grande Municipio
Naguabo Municipio, PR 153 km (95 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Naguabo Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.5 125 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  2. 3.7 128 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  3. 2.8 143 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  4. 3.6 132 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  5. 3.5 77 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  6. 3.5 81 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  7. 3.6 95 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  8. 3.4 106 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  9. 3.4 112 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  10. 3.4 82 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  11. 3.2 92 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico
  12. 3.4 116 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  13. 3.6 88 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  14. 4.0 124 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  15. 3.5 100 km N of Charlotte Amalie, 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 2021-02-06 — it released about 38 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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