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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.9md

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

· 14 km deep · released about 700 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Culebra Municipio 97 kmFajardo Municipio 118 km
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 2.9 (md)
Depth
14 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Culebra Municipio, 97 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 760 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 700 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 22,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 15,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1.4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.9 about 700 lb of TNT

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 18.8982, -64.6073. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Culebra Municipio, PR 97 km (61 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Culebra Municipio
Fajardo Municipio, PR 118 km (73 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Fajardo Municipio
Vieques Municipio, PR 122 km (76 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Vieques Municipio
Ceiba Municipio, PR 129 km (80 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Ceiba Municipio
Luquillo Municipio, PR 130 km (81 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Luquillo Municipio
Naguabo Municipio, PR 141 km (88 mi) ENE 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. 2.9 56 km NE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  2. 3.6 102 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  3. 3.7 93 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  4. 3.8 96 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  5. 3.3 108 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  6. 3.8 105 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  7. 3.8 95 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  8. 3.6 78 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  9. 3.4 84 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  10. 3.3 89 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  11. 3.1 52 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
  12. 3.4 89 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  13. 3.3 45 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  14. 3.5 70 km NE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands
  15. 3.6 75 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 5.7 on 2023-12-09 — it released about 15,000 times the energy of this one.

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

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