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M 4.0md

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

Yes. A magnitude 4.0 earthquake was recorded 150 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands at 13:30 UTC on 2025-09-01, 38 km deep. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

· 38 km deep · released about 14 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 4.0 (md)
Depth
38 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity I
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 357 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

At this magnitude and depth, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 86 km (53 mi) from the epicentre. Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 14 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 12,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 560× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 390× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.0 about 14 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 29× 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km since 2016 was M 5.0 on 2019-10-06 — about 31 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 2 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km:

  1. 6.2 131 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands · 29 km WSW of this epicentre
  2. 5.0 127 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands · 33 km WSW of this epicentre

Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.

Where

Epicentre 19.5901, -64.2511. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.4 109 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  2. 3.4 104 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  3. 4.4 107 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  4. 4.0 103 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  5. 3.1 103 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  6. 3.3 110 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  7. 3.3 105 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  8. 3.7 125 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  9. 3.1 105 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  10. 3.2 114 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  11. 3.3 105 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  12. 3.8 104 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  13. 3.7 122 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  14. 3.5 111 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  15. 4.0 102 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.

On USGS

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