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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.6md

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

· 43 km deep · released about 3.4 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.6 (md)
Depth
43 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Fajardo Municipio, 128 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1577 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 3.4 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 50,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,200× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,600× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.6 about 3.4 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 7.2× 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 19.4265, -65.0761. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Fajardo Municipio, PR 128 km (79 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Fajardo Municipio
Luquillo Municipio, PR 135 km (84 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Luquillo Municipio
Río Grande Municipio, PR 139 km (87 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Río Grande Municipio
Loíza Municipio, PR 142 km (88 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Loíza Municipio
Carolina Municipio, PR 148 km (92 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Carolina Municipio
San Juan Municipio, PR 153 km (95 mi) NE of here earthquakes near San Juan Municipio

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.5 Virgin Islands
  2. 3.7 95 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  3. 3.3 Virgin Islands
  4. 3.9 Virgin Islands
  5. 3.3 116 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  6. 3.4 71 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  7. 3.3 73 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  8. 3.2 75 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  9. 4.0 Puerto Rico region
  10. 3.2 74 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  11. 3.4 74 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  12. 3.7 109 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  13. 3.4 96 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  14. 3.1 114 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  15. 3.7 107 km N 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 2021-02-06 — it released about 130 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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